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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
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Nic is a forty-five-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle ...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
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Compelling new novel of stigma and secrecy from Sunday Times bestseller. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for the wedding of two of its young inhabitants. They're barely adults, not so long out of school and still part of the same set of friends they've grown up with. As the friends ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...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
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels total ...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. In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started ...Show more
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the c ...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
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more