Boulder by Eva Baltasar
33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportu ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Claw of Attraction by David Michie
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The Dalai Lama's Cat returns in the latest instalment of the series by bestselling local author, David Michie The Dalai Lama regarded their flushed, animated faces, his forehead wrinkling. "The materialist approach," he nodded. "Seeking to change what you believe to be entirely outside you. It has many ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper of Lost Things and Three Things About Elsie.'Hugely entertaining . . . funny and heart-warming' Woman & Home 'A gentle, warm-hearted book that had me rooting for all the ...Show more
The Music Shop: An uplifting, heart-warming love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Rachel Joyce
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Rachel Joyce presents her latest novel, exquisite and perfectly pitched, about a love story and a journey through music.It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring ...Show more
This Is Happiness (PB) by Niall Williams
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody ...Show more
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when ...Show more
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Napolitano comes a rich, life-affirming, and heartbreaking novel about sisterhood, family, love, and growing up Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the e ...Show more
Shy by Max Porter
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the best-selling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny - the polyphonic story of a troubled teenager, with all of the humanity and trademark invention we expect from one of our most exciting writers. Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables ...Show more
The Albatross by Nina Wan
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Primrose Li is torn - between her past and her present, her first love and her current love, duty and desire, fear and freedom. One day, as she's almost come apart at the seams, she takes an unexpected detour to her local golf course. Slowly, this sport - which she is terrible at - becomes her meditatio ...Show more
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view. The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine's sis ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more