The Queen's Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and - despite the thrilling ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
The Girl from Donegal by Carmel Harrington
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'An atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years' Sunday Independent Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her fiancé, Davey, was lost following the Irish War of Independence. But a fateful meeting on the wild beauty of Ballymastocker ...Show more
Rouge by Mona Awad
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate--and find a connection that is more than skin deep? ...Show more
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of WILD GAME, a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families and long-buried secrets Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised t ...Show more
Crook Manifesto: Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Harlem Shuffle 2 | Reading Level: near fine
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on t ...Show more
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
<b>The Prize-winning International Bestseller </b> When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a fa ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
Devotion by Hannah Kent
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to d ...Show more
Wild by Kristin Hannah
14.99 NZD
24.99 (40% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and the promise of new beginnings.In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olymp ...Show more