Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'THE ACHING, SWELLING HUMANITY OF THIS BOOK SWALLOWED ME WHOLE' SABA SAMS London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record and the weekend is about to begin… Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with a future in the home town she once fought to escape, she’s beginning to wonder if having a baby will be ...Show more
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A gripping tale of one woman's extraordinary adventures ... Saltblood is a triumph of the imagination'ELODIE HARPER, author of 'The Wolf Den' trilogy'A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto' PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song'Saltblood is exquisite. The writing is sumptuous and ly ...Show more
This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesOther people don't seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or peeking through the sliding doors at h ...Show more
Mysterious Setting by Kazushige Abe; Michael Emmerich (Translator)
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Japanese Novellas Ser.
A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star "Abe's superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting literature." -- Kotaru Isaka, author of Bullet Train This surreal, twisty novel presents a provocati ...Show more
Flappy Investigates: from the author of the joyous Sunday Times bestseller by Santa Montefiore
26.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Flappy returns in the fabulously fun follow-up to Flappy Entertains from bestselling author Santa Montefiore, and this time something is amiss in the village of Badley Compton . . . Binoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o ...Show more
Mrs Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Meet Jenny Quinn is the unlikely star of Britain's favourite baking show, but could her newfound stardom cause her biggest secret to unravel? In their sixty years together, Jennifer Quinn has only kept two secrets from her husband. One is that her love of baking has just won her a spot as a contestant o ...Show more
Mongrel by Hanako Footman
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways 'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' - AISLING BEA 'Heart-shatteringly visc ...Show more
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community - Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimmin ...Show more
Love at Six Thousand Degrees: A Novel by Maki Kashimada
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world."-Yoko Ogawa, author ofThe Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead) A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch of ...Show more