The Paper Palace: The No.1 New York Times Bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick by Miranda Cowley Heller
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a lifeBefore anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has ...Show more
Wet Paint by Chloe Ashby
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'This isn't a book you read, but a book you step into . . . mesmerising' Emma GannonSince the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything and everyone at arm's length. Safe in her detachment, she scrapes along waiting tables and cleaning her shared flat in exch ...Show more
All's Well by Mona Awad
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A dazzling wild ride of a novel – daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. Mona Awad is a powerful and poetic storyteller, telling us something new and profound here about the connection between suffering and elation. When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it." — George Saunders, New ...Show more
The Hidden Cottage by Erica James
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home, a happy marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children to whom she's devoted. But appearances can be deceptive...When the family gathers for her son's 30th birthday, he brings with him his latest girlfriend who, to their surprise, ...Show more
The Secret Wife by Mark Lamprell
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
For readers of Robert Hillman and Toni Jordan, and written by an award-winning author and screenwriter, The Secret Wife is a tense, heartfelt story of female friendship and liberation in the turbulent 1960s In 1961, on the day that Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to rocket into outer space, Edith ...Show more
Our Kind of People by Carol Wallace
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Fans of Bridgerton will love this "exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age" (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin.Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention.Helen Wilcox has one desire- to successfully ...Show more
The Runaway Duchess by Joanna Lowell
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance from the author of The Duke Undone. Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of becoming a duchess. But family disgrace forces her into marriage with the most vile duke in England, and ...Show more
The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A captivating novel about the stories we choose to hand down to our families - set against the sun-drenched backdrop of early twentieth century southern Europe. Proud matriarch Matelda Cabrelli always has something to say. But, as she faces the end of her life, she worries she's failed to tell the stori ...Show more
Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A modern-day historian finds her life intertwined with Annie Oakley's in an electrifying novel that explores female revenge and the allure of changing one's past. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarri ...Show more
Land of Snow and Ashes by Petra Rautiainen
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sami people. Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young Finnish soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold on to his humanity. When peace co ...Show more
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgo ...Show more
The Lost Shtetl - A Novel by Max Gross
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES GOOD MORNING AMERICA MUST READ NEW BOOKS * NEW YORK POST BUZZ BOOKS * THE MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATED A remarkable debut novel--written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the p ...Show more