8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Slave. Escape-Artist. Murderer. Terrorist. Spy. Lover. Mother. Trickster. Ms Mook made you want to listen to her, but I wasn't sure what to believe. She said she would turn 'one hundred the day after tomorrow', yet she looked at most eighty-seven. She said she'd been a slave, a spy, a murderer and mor ...Show more
A Suitable Boy: THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER AND MAJOR BBC DRAMA by Vikram Seth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue never loses its power to delight and enchant readers. Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal a ...Show more
Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
$45.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forwa ...Show more
Absolution by Alice McDermott
$33.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.'ANN PATCHETT'Damning and dazzling, this is the story of a Vietnam we never got in history class' OPRAH DAILY'A masterful American writer'MAIL ON SUNDAYYou have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash
$36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A wickedly funny and genuinely moving debut novel perfect for fans of Richard Osman and The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window. "In the beginning is the whatsitsname. The woman in the car park. She wears a nightgown and lies on her back, looking up at the sky. The nightgown is white and ...Show more
As Young As This by Roxy Dunn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Tender, devastating and sharply funny, As Young as This is a beautiful depiction of the ways people shape us, the plans we make for our lives, and what it means to let go of them, from an incredible new talent. Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are th ...Show more
Be Mine by Richard Ford
$36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A masterful writer' RAYMOND CARVER Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more
Becoming Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for those too ...Show more
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A heartbreaking story of love and loss, based on a true storyOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2017 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD *************************** Memphis, Tennessee, 1939 Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger sibli ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a s ...Show more