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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A novel to treasure' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows ...Show more
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A New York Times bestseller, An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year -- An elegant and captivating debut novel, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little ...Show more
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them. This story starts with ...Show more
The Pearl Sister (#4 Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$19.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: The Seven Sisters
CeCe D'Apli se has always felt like an outcast. But after the death of her father -- a reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe -- she feels more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her familial orig ...Show more
The Four Winds by KRISTIN HANNAH
$34.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million-copy number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah. She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli ...Show more
As You Were by Elaine Feeney
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it- not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her p ...Show more
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A sweeping, moving novel that is becoming an international sensation - based on an incredible true story. We all have something to tell those we have lost...When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must ...Show more
The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
*A STUNNING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HARRY HOLE SERIES* In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns ou ...Show more
The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman
$36.00 NZD
Category: Modern
A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, fla ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Orchids are liars. They use pheromones to lure wasps in to become unwitting pollinators. In nature, such exploitative systems are rare. In society, they are everywhere. Gael Foess is a heroine of mythic proportions. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, she learns from an early age how i ...Show more