Watersong by Clarissa Goenawan
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be f ...Show more
Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A beautiful coming of age story in the shadow of a complex love affairWhen Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the ghost of her potential as a competitive swimmer. Free to create a fresh identity for herself, she finds herself among people who adore the poetry of her grandfather, Benjamin C ...Show more
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick and set to be a major summer paperback. Your best friend killed a man. Now she needs your help. But can you really trust her motives?On holiday in Chile with her best friend Kristen, Emily is having the time of her life. Until, one night, she finds their hotel suite cov ...Show more
Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples of Jesus Christ - and whose roles have been erased from the Gospels From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were ...Show more
Lily by Rose Tremain
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murderNobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundli ...Show more
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Gorgeous. Very, very funny in a knowing wry way but so tender, so beautiful. I loved all the characters.' Marian Keyes'Warm, witty, touching - and frequently hilarious' David Nicholls, author of Sweet Sorrow'You put the book down and feel glad to be alive' India Knight, Sunday TimesJane easily falls in ...Show more
The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan
29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Poignant and powerful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together.Sometimes a book has the power to change your life...When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Be ...Show more
When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'There's someone in the school. Someone who's not supposed to be there. This person is walking towards the classroom. They're holding something in their hands. Something terrifying.' Sam lives with his mum, dad and four brothers in a small farming town. At his school, there are three main factions- the ...Show more
Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A dark-dazzling archive of enchantments, pursuit, and desire' ELEY WILLIAMS'This is the most adventurous, stylistically magnificent thing I've read for years. Nobody does fantasy like Zoe Gilbert' NATASHA PULLEYHerne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles thr ...Show more
The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
"Nobody does troubled figures in a stunning landscape like Ben Myers. He's a major force in the English novel and he gets better with every book." Max Porter, author of 'Grief is The Thing With Feathers' and 'Lanny' From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles ...Show more
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.' -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming and compulsively readable exploration of friendship and hope, tracing a widow's unlik ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve ...Show more