Long Island by Colm Tóibín
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
The Doctors Wife by Fiona Sussman
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly inexplicable; Carmen Andino has a brain tumour. A ...Show more
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community - Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimmin ...Show more
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.'ALI SMITH'Entirely original.'STYLIST'Oyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling.'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.'INDEPENDENTThe new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oye ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
Limelight by Daisy Buchanan
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is ashamed of that craving. And after a lifetime of comparison to her perfect sister Bean, she has never felt more invisible. She only ever feels seen when she uploads risqué photos to her small community of ...Show more
Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. by Kerry Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Inspired by the true story of Bill Smith (1886-1975), who may have been Australia's first trans jockey. A moving, tender debut novel about identity, solitude and the human spirit. A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smi ...Show more
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The haunting debut novel from beloved, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson. The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolated to some, artist Nell feels the island is her home. It is the source o ...Show more
Double Jeopardy by Stef Harris
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Watch out, Jack Reacher, here comes Frank Winter. Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yester-day ...Show more
The Glasgow Smile by Chris Stuart
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In a grimy graffiti-covered recess in one of Melbourne's tangled inner city laneways, a woman is found murdered. 'Why would anyone want to kill her? She was so ordinary.' was the oft-repeated phrase DI Robbie heard when the name of the deceased was revealed. So why then was the body propped up in such ...Show more