Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died, and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who ...Show more
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
You could say I was thinking of other things when I shampooed my hair blue, and two glasses of red wine didn't help my concentration. Let me explain. At the end of the year, before I begin a new project, I read the translation I've completed. I do final corrections (minor), set the pages in order, and p ...Show more
Lottery by Anita Burgh
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Winning the lottery might be the answer to your prayers, but it can also turn dreams into nightmares... From the author of BREEDERS comes a funny, sexy and sassy insight into the world of an overnight millionairess.
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
$16.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult presents an intelligent, empathetic story about a woman caught in a gripping moral dilemma that resonates far beyond her place in time and history into present day. Ruth has worked in the maternity ward for over twenty years, but when young couple Tu ...Show more
Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in An ...Show more
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
One house. Nine strangers. Ten days that will change everything . . . The retreat at health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot ston ...Show more
Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Rich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of old Cairo, and the vast, foreboding desert surrounding it - "Iris and Ruby" is a stirring story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family. Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic, Iris Black's Cairo house is sud ...Show more
Levi's War by Julie Thomas
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Levi's War follows on from The Keeper of Secrets and Rachel's Legacy, tracing the story of the eldest Horowitz son, Levi, who is smuggled out of Berlin to London the day after the Kristallnacht in 1938, where he makes the momentous decision to be parachuted back behind enemy lines and fight as a Partisa ...Show more
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
A contemporary retelling of Hamlet of stark and striking brilliance set on a farm in remote northern Wisconsin. On a farm in remote northern Wisconsin the mute and brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents Gar and Trudy. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a bree ...Show more
The Tiger Catcher (End of Forever #1) by Paullina Simons
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: The End of Forever Series | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Can true love ever die? The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everyt ...Show more
The Summer Garden (#3 Bronze Horseman) by Paullina Simons
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: The\Bronze Horseman Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible ...Show more
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. 'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being...' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on ...Show more