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The Disinvent Movement by Susanna Gendall
$30.00 NZD
$36.01 (16% off)
Category: Fiction Contemporary
Every week we would disinvent something. This week it would be plastic. Next week it would be the aeroplane. I stood outside the supermarket and handed out flyers, which people kindly refused as they left carrying large packs of bottled water.' The short history of the Disinvent Movement is told by its ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
Phaedra Patrick Book 4 by Phaedra Patrick
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
'A wonderfully hope-filled story' Sarah Haywood, bestselling author of The Cactus A single father gets an unexpected second chance at love in the heart-warming new novel from the bestselling author of The Library of Lost and Found. Single dad Mitchell Fisher has said a firm goodbye to romance. He relish ...Show more
Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light returns with a thought-provoking and otherworldly new novel about the fates that we choose for ourselves and what happens when we have the chance to choose again. Dawn Edelstein knows everything there is to know about dying. She specialises i ...Show more
The Interpreter from Java by Alfred Birney
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
'What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book' ADRIAAN VAN DIS. Alan Nolan discovers his father's memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father's life i ...Show more
The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, flas ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. 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 abando ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$23.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: 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 Marian ...Show more
Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich and Suitcase of Dreams comes an unforgettable tale of love, courage and betrayal inspired by a true story Berlin, 1943 As the Allied forces edge closer, the Third Reich tightens its grip on its people. For eighteen-year-old Susanna Göttmann, this means ...Show more
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
Compelling new novel of stigma and secrecy from Sunday Times bestseller. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for the wedding of two of its young inhabitants. They're barely adults, not so long out of school and still part of the same set of friends they've grown up with. As the friends ...Show more
Dublin Palms by Hugo Hamilton
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind. The narrator of Dublin Palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and ...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