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
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan an ...Show more
The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: good
A heartbreaking, stay-up-all-night novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. A Brief Encounter for our time, The Last Letter from Your Lover is a sophisticated, spellbinding double love story that spans decades and thrillingly evokes a bygone era. In ...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
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in 2014 In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, ...Show more
The Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Series: Cazalet Chronicle s #1 | Reading Level: very good
Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home ...For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of war. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach. Three generation ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the ...Show more
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Series: Wonder | Reading Level: very good
My name is August. I won't describe to you what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Born with a terribl ...Show more
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives a ...Show more
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s--the country is in ...Show more