Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and communit ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley (Netflix TVTI) by Patricia Highsmith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This sleek and modern Netflix tie-in edition marks the return of Highsmith's classic story to our screens, cementing The Talented Mr Ripley's iconic position as a tale that has triggered delight and disgust in readers and viewers alike for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. * Tom R ...Show more
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls they were more than just cousins- they were an inseparable duo, prepared to do anything to protect one another. There was no such thing as a 'secret' between the two girls, who lived their entire childhoods side by side.Then Selasi begins to change. She becomes wi ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Hangman by Maya Binyam
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn't recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone at the airport knows him-a man who calls him brother. As they travel to this man's house, the purpose of his vi ...Show more
Ali Smith Bundle: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
$80.00 NZD
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Category: Contemporary Fiction
One Day: Now a major Netflix series by David Nicholls
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESS It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of ...Show more
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
She felt their eyes, all those executioners...Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023'The new maestro of dystopian lit has arrived' ...Show more
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Rollicking, melodic, tender and true. And oh so very wise' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has be ...Show more
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A clever and moving debut perfect for fans of Elizabeth is Missing and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time A SENSATIONAL DEBUT FROM HUTCHINSON HEINEMANN IN 2024 'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ri ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more