Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
$21.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer. Instead, he works in a confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with a sweet paste made of red beans. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$37.00 NZD
Category: Irish
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, f ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved the ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam ca ...Show more
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
$29.99 NZD
Category: Irish
'A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novela He's yet another masterful younger writer coming througha Wonderful' Sebastian BarryThe house is on Montpelier Parade- just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curi ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity. Ute, a wandering womb. Rage, an existential spleen. Gaster, a gleeful gorger. Liv, a workaholic liver. But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour. Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival. The Vitals ...Show more
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (#8 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: The Seven Sisters
Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928, Paris: A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. ...Show more