Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Amor 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 h ...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
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent ...Show more
One Day: Now a major Netflix series by David Nicholls
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: good
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESS It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
$12.95 NZD
$13.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguin | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more