Enigma Variations by André Aciman
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, l ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
The Colours of all the Cattle (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #19) by Alexander McCall Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
The latest installment from THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series Mma Ramotswe's friend will persuade her to stand for election to the City Council. 'We need women like her in politics,' Mma Potokwani says, 'instead of having the same old men every time . . .' To be elected, Mma Ramotswe must have a ...Show more
The Messenger by Markus Zusak
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in the suburbs, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he's in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the firs ...Show more
Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A remarkable tale of the fantastic in everyday life from Megan Lindholm, who also writes as Robin Hobb. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. Evelyn is a solitary child, preferring to wander in the woods in all weathers rather than socialise. Her secret is a fantastic companion: a faun with whom ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
Shell by Kristina Olsson
26.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept ... In 1965 as ...Show more
Travelling Cat Chronicles (HB) by Hiro Arikawa; Philip Gabriel (Translator)
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A stunning hardback edition of this word-of-mouth hit - perfect for gifting. RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feel-good story of a man's journey around Japan with a street cat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 EXQUSITE LINE-DRAWINGS. A WATE ...Show more
The Stars Now Unclaimed (#1 The Stars Now Unclaimed) by Drew Williams
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Universe After Ser.
Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy.Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the d ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Us by David Nicholls
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014.Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' n ...Show more