Mrs Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Meet Jenny Quinn is the unlikely star of Britain's favourite baking show, but could her newfound stardom cause her biggest secret to unravel? In their sixty years together, Jennifer Quinn has only kept two secrets from her husband. One is that her love of baking has just won her a spot as a contestant o ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of One Day. 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 recl ...Show more
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
$37.00 NZD
Category: Irish
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there ar ...Show more
A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty
$36.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The latest from the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty 'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' - HILARY MANTEL 'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' - The Times Bird is ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i P ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH `A masterpiece' Zadie Smith `Extraordinary' Daily Mail `Breathtaking' Observer `A tour de force' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about ...Show more
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
$38.00 NZD
Category: Modern
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they fled Mao's cultural revolution, hoping for a better life. Despite the glamour of her media job, Lil ...Show more
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020 'By turns hilarious and flat-out heart-breaking, Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown is a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel.' - Roxanne Gay 'A novel that manages the rare feat of being both extravagantly experimental and a lot of fun to read.' - The Times, Best fictio ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
$39.00 NZD
Category: Modern
A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of history's greatest musical masterpiece **An Observer Debut Novelist of 2024** **Selected as a book of 2024 by the New Statesman and the BBC** 'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is ...Show more