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
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
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
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
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary's dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistres ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The whole world disappears when you enter The Silence factory. Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. P ...Show more
Return to Blood (#2) by Michael Bennett
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
Two murders. Two decades apart. One chance to get justice. Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start. The discovery of a skeleton in the dunes near her house changes everything. The remains are those of a ...Show more
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever. England must fall.In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test th ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date 'A complete masterwork' SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo 'Enlightenment is a gift' SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers ...Show more