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June Rain by Jabbour Douaihy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbou ...Show more
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence tha ...Show more
Elza's Kitchen by Marc Fitten
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
For years, Elza has managed to get by. She has her own little restaurant in the Hungarian city of Delibab cooking quality versions of her country's classics and serving them with a smile. But lately her smile has become tired. She is weary of serving the same customers the same dishes, and the loveless ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, naive and newly-ordained, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time on the island will irrevocably change the course of his life, but the white house on the edge of the dunes keeps its silence long after Alexa ...Show more
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
After the critical and commercial success of her Orange Prize-shortlisted novel, Foreign Bodies (2012), Atlantic Books is proud to republish what is widely considered to be Cynthia Ozick's masterpiece, The Messiah of Stockholm Lars Andeming, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the ...Show more
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'I know you'll return.' These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in the bruta ...Show more
The Night Flower by Sarah Stovell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A Romany girl and a disgraced governess are transported as convicts to Tasmania in this hugely entertaining Victorian gothic. Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to 'parts beyond the sea'. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in th ...Show more
After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
This is the magical story behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: friendship, childhood and lost innocence. When the writer, Oxford scholar and photographer John Jameson visits the home of his vicar friend, he is entranced by Daisy, his youngest daughter. Jameson charms her with his wit and child-like ...Show more
Familiar by J. Robert Lennon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A woman's life becomes a mystifying puzzle in this electrifying experimental thriller. Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual visit to her son Sila's grave. The road is flat and featureless, and so she finds herself focussing on an old crack in her windscreen. For a moment, she loses sense of all e ...Show more
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers - a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The ...Show more
Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment f ...Show more
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, ...Show more