The Overstory (US HB) by Richard Powers
65.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
** LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ** 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of ...Show more
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
"Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberance, offering a much-needed glimpse into a world that too many of us don't even know exists. This is a book to give your little sister, your mother, your best friend, yourself, so together you can celebrate the strength of women and girls, the tenacity it take ...Show more
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March - A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of 2019 - A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer - A USA Today Best Book of the Week - A Washington Boo ...Show more
On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
**NEW** A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and traine ...Show more
The Invitation
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ...Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly 20 years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites E ...Show more
Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H Wilson
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name--and spawned a new genre, the technothriller--the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. The Evolution is Coming. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and ...Show more
Unravelling Oliver: The gripping psychological suspense from the No. 1 bestseller by Liz Nugent
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
This Book is The Winner - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year 2014. "Truly excellent, beautifully written...strongly recommended." (Sophie Hannah). "Compelling, clever and dark, unlike any other psychological thriller you will have read before...you'll gobble it up in one go." (Heat Magazine). "Gone Girl ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of 'happy couples', Weapons of Mass Destru ...Show more
Waterline by Chris Else
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Have you heard the news? Candy always had the news. There's a terrible, terrible storm coming. The winds will be 380 kilometres an hour. Should we be worried? Billie asked. Well, apparently, what you have to do is put your head inside a paper bag and hide under the bed. That can't be right, Ming said. T ...Show more
Turn Left at Venus by Inez Baranay
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
What if there were a world where people changed gender all the time, what if there were a world of only women, what if there were a world where gender didn’t matter, what if …? Ada Ligeti writes groundbreaking science fiction as the anonymous author A.L.Ligeti. Turn Left At Venus includes chapters about ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: LIBERTY FABRIC COVER
'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates 'A modern classic.' Guardian Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther's vision of ...Show more