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 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
Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Aom Towles' Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her ...Show more
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. 'Lenka, it's me,' he said. 'Josef. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a ...Show more
The Empty Family by Colm Toibin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
In the nine captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a ...Show more
When God was a Rabbit: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Winman's bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT continues to captivate and enchant readers. 1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those w ...Show more
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
New York Times Bestseller National Bestseller: Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle (#1), Chicago Tribune (#1), Denver Post (#1), Minneapolis Star-Tribune (#1), Publishers Weekly Indie Next Bestseller (#1) Best Book of the Year: New Yo ...Show more