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
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
$9.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
A Mistake by Carl Shuker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for bla ...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
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a crue ...Show more
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All by Jonas Jonasson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition - slight yellowing to edges of pages. The bestselling novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's always awkward wh ...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