** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS** ‘The most exciting novel I’ve read in ages… I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it’ Marian Keyes ‘This novel is perfection’ Glamour ‘A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood – This is an excellent novel’ The Times You…
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to…
Meet Lynette – actor, writer, director, showrunner. It’s her birthday. She’s waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are grey skies, crazy golf, a row of Border Defense huts. She hasn’t worked in a while (she hasn’t been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television…
It turned out that my music had never left me. It had been stolen, yes, but not stolen away. I had simply never been free to play it . . . When Arthur Champion, a gifted young music scholar, is sent away to war, he experiences the unimaginable hellscape of the Somme trenches. Surviving the…
‘Utterly compulsive … I could not stop reading’ CHARLOTTE McCONAGHY ‘Mesmerising … I felt the unearthly pull of its power long after I’d finished’ KALIANE BRADLEY From the acclaimed author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield, comes an extraordinary epic novel following two alpine climbers risking everything in pursuit of what they love….
Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. Tara has returned to Thomas, but she is no longer…
‘A captivating reading experience.’ BOOKS + PUBLISHING Provocative and utterly gripping, The Starving Bride is a razor-sharp exploration of beauty, shame, the impacts of ignoring the warning signs of catastrophe and the dangerous allure of spectacle in a world that can’t look away. England, the near future. Dumped by her boyfriend, fired from her job…
Gunn Haven, professor of astrophysics, has taken a leave from the institute where she teaches and moved back to the rural area of her upbringing. She’s there for the clear night sky and for solitude, as she tracks gamma-ray bursts and unravels the origins of the universe. But while Gunn studies celestial bodies, she must…
Parenting teens is not for the faint of heart but Madeline, Jane and Celeste have been through worse. It’s been a decade since the school trivia night that changed their lives forever and now they’re living blissfully ordinary suburban lives. But when an anonymous grisly package arrives at the local high school, and a man…
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