Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike su ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry (TVTI) by Bonnie Garmus
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Apple TV + tie-in of the multi-million-copy No. 1 Sunday Times, No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller and prizewinner THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES, #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The multi-million copy bestseller As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Winner of the Goodreads Cho ...Show more
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there ar ...Show more
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years but now they've decided to hang up their stethoscopes and retire. Joy! Celebration! Or not . . . Heather dreams of exploring the Greek Islands, of escaping the shackles of he ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ha ...Show more
The Painter's Friend by Howard Cunnell
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
‘One of the books of the year. Cunnell’s style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful’ – Irish Times ‘A cracking, urgent page-turner of a novel’ – Observer The painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast. In ...Show more
Q & A: Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a ki ...Show more
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion narrates this fever dream of a novel, carrying us on a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing modern day L.A. I've never eaten a person but today I might . . . A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the H ...Show more
At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a bookshop, Mathias is a writer, and both are at turning points in their lives. Mim's childhood polio is taking a toll on her life. Mathias is ...Show more
Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forwa ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more