Death Makes a Prophet by John Bude
$15.00 NZD
$24.99 (39% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty res ...Show more
Detachment Theory by Richard Woolley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
PAST AND PRESENT BECOME DANGEROUSLY ENTWINED IN THIS INTRICATE AND COMPELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERIt is 2015, and successful Kiwi journalist Joy Manville enjoys a fulfilling life in New Zealand, Aotearoa, together with her older English husband, Stephen, a Professor in Film Studies at the University o ...Show more
Embedded by David Burt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Afghanistan 1982, a botched CIA operation leaves a young Ali without a family, setting him on an unpredictable path for retribution. What follows is his lifelong, meticulously planned quest for vengeance, from Afghanistan across the globe to New York. Along the way he makes enemies in a Pakistani drug l ...Show more
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the ...Show more
Going Home by Carol Brungar
$17.50 NZD
$34.99 (49% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When Kiwi nurse Ronnie McIlroy volunteers to spend twelve months nursing in a South Vietnamese hospital in 1967, she’s ill-prepared for the poverty-stricken country, the people, or the impact it has. Wonderful tale of love, hope, and courage in the face of adversity.
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
$15.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
$19.00 NZD
$37.98 (49% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the beloved and wayward son, Jack Boughton. 'Grace and intelligenc ...Show more
Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather ...Show more
Mermaid's Purse, The by Adcock Fleur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, ...Show more
Odin's Island by Janne Teller
$8.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Secondhand. Sigbrit Holland is driving along a treacherous winter road. Out of nowhere, something looms into view and Sigbrit has to slam on her brakes to avoid it. Investigating, she is unnerved to find an unusually short man - barely one metre tall - frozen to the spot. Unable to leave him there, Sig ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$25.00 NZD
$50.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more