Lucy Talk
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Meet Lucy Gordon, the sweet, scatty, irresistible heroine of Fiona Walker's delicious novel. Lucy lives in a Berkshire village with her two friends, Jane and Bella, and works in the marketing department of Widgetex Computers. Her boss - Slave Driver - is a constant bane; her family are lovable eccentric ...Show more
Dead Sexy by Kathy Lette
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
A London radio station runs a 'Desperate and Dateless' competition, and a computer matches all the contestants to find the perfect pair. The 'winners' - an American who thinks little of women, and a conservative English woman who hates men - meet on the day they are to be married.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$5.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads ...Show more
A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Both funny and serious, this novel recounts what is really going on in the head of domesticated mid-life man. As he gets up earlier and earlier each day, he rummages through the thoughts which crowd his head and preoccupy him: love and marriage, firelighters and suicide, and ant-farms.
With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Over 140 of the author's favourite and most famous recipes can be found in this book. There are dishes for every course of every meal - from "Teasers and Titbits", through "Some Seeds of this Planet" to "A Plethora of Puddings".
Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas
$8.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria HislopThe unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is se ...Show more
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is wh ...Show more
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
$18.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: 1q84 Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems n ...Show more
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
$6.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
A deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin A young man is transported to an enchanted isle in a quest to discover the secrets of visibility. He finds himself living amid a society of invisible beings who have built a utopia based on a single law: "Every experience is repeated or suffered ...Show more
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea. Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the value of religious metaphor, it was one of the most extraordinary and original nove ...Show more
A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Ahalya Ghai and her younger sister Sita are as close as sisters can be. But when a tsunami rips through their village on India's Coromandel coast, their home is swept away, and the sisters are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent many miles away. ...Show more