The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
$22.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. In The Art of Fielding, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College, "a little school in the crook of the thumb of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin," are all t ...Show more
The Beach by Alex Garland
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richard is drawn into a strange conversation in a hotel. He hears of a secret island Garden of Eden hidden in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. Next morning, he finds a map pinned to his door and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists. The challenge is irresistible and he sets off on ...Show more
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
$19.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after an ...Show more
The Final Call by Jen Shieff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Buckle up for The Final Call, Jen Shieff’s third book, a standalone sequel to The Gentleman’s Club and The Vanishing Act – both finalists in the Ngaio Marsh Awards. It’s 1979. Auckland is on the brink. Fashion and music are bursting through previous boundaries but prostitution is still illegal and male ...Show more
The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbo
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Harry Hole | Reading Level: very good
A page-turning collection of dark and twisted crime stories from the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series. Filled with dark thrills, twisted minds and vengeful hearts, these twelve page-turning short stories from 'the king of Scandicrime' (FT) and creator of the iconic detective Har ...Show more
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at ...Show more
The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2) by Richard Osman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club
The second novel in the record-breaking number one bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mysteryIt's the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is bei ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
The Nam Shadow by Carole Brungar
$17.50 NZD
$34.99 (49% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
To carefree, naive, young soldier Terry Edwards, life's an adventure. But how easy is it to cope with the extreme fear and intense emotions that come with the war in Vietnam, when you know life balances on the accuracy of a bullet in meeting its target?
The Pitbull Returns (Dragon Defenders #2) by James Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Dragon Defenders
Months have passed since evil boss The Pitbull stole a dragon's egg from Flynn and Paddy's paradise island. By now, it should have hatched. But when he discovers that it's nothing more than an egg-shaped rock, The Pitbull flies into a terrible rage and plots revenge. Will Flynn and Paddy be able to stop ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
$48.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Sequel to Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades.When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.With The Testaments, the wait is o ...Show more