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How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid imagination. Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she ...Show more
The Confusion of Karen Carpenter by Jonathan Harvey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Hello. There are two things you should know about me: 1) My name is Karen Carpenter. 2) Just before Christmas my boyfriend left me. I'm not THE Karen Carpenter. I just have the most embarrassing name in Christendom. Particularly as I'm no skinny minny and don't play the drums. I can't even sing. I'm ton ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricat ...Show more
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse (#1 HB) by Chris Riddell
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Goth Girl | Reading Level: 7
Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming. This makes it hard for her to make friends and she's rather lonely. Then one da ...Show more
War Clouds Gather by Peter Watt
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: FRONTIER SERIES THE DUFFY/MACINTOSH SERIES
Against the backdrop of impending war and the rise of the Nazi Party, the epic saga of the Macintosh and Duffy families continues. It's 1936. While Europe is starting to feel the shadow of the upcoming turmoil, George Macintosh is determined to keep control of his business empire. He takes extreme measu ...Show more
Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'Tallulah de Longland,' she said slowly, letting all the Ls in my name loll about lazily in her mouth before passing judgement. 'That,' she announced, 'is a serious glamorgeous name.' From the day Annabelle Andrews sashays into her classroom, Tallulah 'Lulu' de Longland is bewitched: by Annabelle, by he ...Show more
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: good
This is the stunning, epic new novel from Tom Franklin, the Gold Dagger Award winning author, writing with his wife, prize-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly. April 1927. After months of rain, the Mississippi River has reached dangerous levels and the little town of Hobnob, situated at a sharp bend in the r ...Show more
The Deaths by Mark Lawson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Two in one: a consummately plotted crime novel and a forensic social satire from one of Britain's most highly regarded broadcasters. Four families live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built for the old aristocracy. They are the new aristocracy and the elite of ...Show more
Risk by C. K. Stead
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.K. Stead "has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their entire chapters" said the Sunday Times. Recently divorced New Zealand native Sam Nola returns to London, ...Show more
The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Italy in 2025 is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks withhold money, armed gangs of drug-fuelled youths roam the countryside. Leonardo was a well-known writer and academic before a sex scandal ended his marriage and career. He takes refuge in his remote vineyard home, but nowhere is safe ...Show more
The Silver Swan: Quirke Mysteries Book 2 by Benjamin Black
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Quirke Mysteries
Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon and written by Andrew Davies Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he onc ...Show more
Elegy for April: Quirke Mysteries Book 3 by Benjamin Black
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Quirke Mysteries | Reading Level: 16
Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and Colin Morgan and written by Conor McPherson 1950s Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; ...Show more