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The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals - and one little boy - whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one ...Show more
The Women and the Girls by Laura Bloom
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A kind of Monkey Grip meets 'Nine to Five', The Women and The Girls explores the price - and the rewards - of family and friendship in the Age of Aquarius - and at the dawning of the Age of Divorce. Three friends. Three marriages left behind. Life begins in earnest. It's 1977, and warm, bohemian Libby ...Show more
Cardiff, By The Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A collection of four previously unpublished novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present. From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. "A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trou ...Show more
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - her psychotherapy group - and in turn finds human connection, and herself. Christie Tate had just b ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
mountweazel n. a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. It is the final year of the nineteenth century and Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swans ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin.
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound meditation on life, death, and lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the reb ...Show more
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
July, 1962 Sixteen year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But what kind of a woman will she become? The fastest milk bottle-delivery girl in East Yorkshire, Evie is tall as a tree and hot as the desert sand. She dreams of an independent life lived under the bright lights of London (o ...Show more
Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with ...Show more
The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Rosalie Ham's dressmaker returns in the sequel to the beloved #1 bestseller and the box office sensation, The Dressmaker. It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittanc ...Show more