Kala by Colin Walsh
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding: The bestselling uplifting emotional novel from the beloved international author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The bestselling novel from the author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfu ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most ...Show more
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a distant tide. It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Three generations, one chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present Day: Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dr ...Show more
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world FROM THE BOOKER-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD A smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent, mountaintop ...Show more
The Last Devil To Die (#4 The Thursday Murder Club) by Richard Osman
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club | Reading Level: very good
The fourth book in the record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British national treasure Richard Osman. Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into ac ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
DOES WHAT YOU SEE CHANGE WHO YOU ARE?Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the ...Show more