4 3 2 1: A novel by Paul Auster
$33.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Shortlisted 2017 Man Booker Prize: Paul Auster's first novel in seven years - his greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking and most satisfying work. Description On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born.From that single beg ...Show more
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: #1
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel that balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language --now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. "Blissfully romantic.... A terrific, spellcast ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$28.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Aom Towles' 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 more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighb ...Show more