Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: good
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for gui ...Show more
In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is t ...Show more
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
One house. Nine strangers. Ten days that will change everything . . . The retreat at health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot ston ...Show more
The Love Letter by Lucinda Riley
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
Keeping secrets is a dangerous game...1995, London.When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret so shocking, so devastating that it could rock the English establishment to its co ...Show more
Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece draws him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker. Keita Mori is a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. He seem ...Show more
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The no 1. New York Times bestseller from the author of The Husband's Secret and new novel Nine Perfect Strangers.NOW AN EMMY AWARD WINNING HBO TELEVISION SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON & NICOLE KIDMANParents behaving badly ... a tragic accident ... or murder? What isn't in doubt is that someone i ...Show more
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
$44.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled t ...Show more
These Things Happen by Greg Fleet
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
For 30 years Greg Fleet has been one of Australia's most widely known and best loved comedians. For the same period, he's had a drug habit that has delivered him comedy and tragedy in equal parts. These Things Happen is Fleet's hilarious, heartbreaking account of the life-or-death battle for his soul. O ...Show more
Discreet Hero by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public he ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more