The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, tradin ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Two for the Road by Roddy Doyle
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern
FROM THE AUTHOR OF TWO PINTS AND TWO MORE PINTS Another round of two pints from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of Roddy Doyle Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone- David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia and ...Show more
Salvation: Salvation Sequence Book 1 by Peter Hamilton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: The\Salvation Sequence Ser.
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation-including starships-virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any ot ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$19.99 NZD
Category: Modern
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
White Houses by Amy Bloom
$17.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers. In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter ...Show more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$16.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$15.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Popular Penguins
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$15.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
$9.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
$34.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more