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Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have li ...Show more
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson; Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and ...Show more
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality t ...Show more
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Reviewed by Bookoccino owner, Raymond Bonner. Unforgettable characters, from the streets of San Francisco to inside women’s prisons. As realistic as non-fiction; as well written as the most captivating fiction. Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six y ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one?s ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the Mc ...Show more
Jott by Sam Thompson
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux. Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled frie ...Show more
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It is the summer of 1969, and Frances is writing a report on garden architecture in the attic of a dilapidated country house. But she is distracted. The glamorous, hedonistic Peter and Cara are staying in the rooms below, and Frances is surprised to discover that they are keen to spend time with her. Be ...Show more
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creatu ...Show more
The Dry by Jane Harper
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six- ...Show more
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the worl ...Show more
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence* A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with ...Show more
