The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life 'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch of ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...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
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
Apples Never Fall: TV Tie-In by Liane Moriarty
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The bestselling title from Liane Moriarty will be hitting the small screens, with Annette Benning and Sam Neill in the lead roles. From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to lear ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, 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? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion. Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. ...Show more
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more