The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times 'An irresistible summer read' Guardian Book of the Day 'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily Mail 'Such a skilful story-teller, who vividly dramatizes our lives with wit, wis ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: good
"Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the ...Show more
Kala by Colin Walsh
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets. In her work as a 'death doula', Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks - ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS. But ...Show more
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
All My Mothers by Joanna Glen
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of one girl's journey to find her birth mother, and her realisation that mothers – and family – can be discovered in the most unexpected of places… London, 1980s. Though she has a comfortable, privileged lif ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity, and oblivion What a thing of won ...Show more
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the ...Show more
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death.Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The ...Show more
Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
"Every page is a breathless, swoonworthy adventure' Roshani Chokshi, bestselling author of The Last Tale of the Flower Bride 'An enthralling tale of adventure, romance, and star-crossed lovers, in an enchanting world of ancient gods and legends' - Sue Lynn Tan, bestselling author of Daughter of the Moon ...Show more
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers - Ivan, tall and stoic, ...Show more