The Langoliers by Stephen King
19.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Four Past Midnight
No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication.The flight attendan ...Show more
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
26.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitab ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from the 2021 Booker Prizewinning author Damon Galgut The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the fam ...Show more
Forty Nights (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Pirooz Jafari
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set my heart on fire. We danced around the flames and with every twirl, I grabbed a few words until I was burnt to ashes. Tishtar runs a small legal practice in ...Show more
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