| Author: | Colson Whitehead |
| Category: |
General Fiction |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand ... read more
| Author: | Sarah Crossan |
| Category: |
Real World |
| Reading Level: | 9 YA |
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't em... read more
| Author: | Markus Zusak |
| Category: |
General Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father ... read more
| Author: | Max Porter |
| Category: |
Staff Picks |
| Awards: | Longlisted Booker Prize 2019 |
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one... read more
| Author: | John Boyne |
| Category: |
General Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one cunning, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success "Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better." -- The Times (... read more
| Author: | Liane Moriarty |
| Category: |
General Fiction |
The health and wellness retreat at Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's directo... read more
| Author: | John Lanchester |
| Category: |
Staff Picks |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Longlisted Booker Prize 2019 |
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it.
He longs for ... read more
| Author: | Bridget Collins |
| Category: |
General Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, s... read more
| Author: | Delia Owens |
| Category: |
Staff Picks |
| Awards: | NY Times Bestseller |
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book Review For years, rumors of the "Marsh Gi... read more
| Author: | Anne Kennedy |
| Category: |
NZ Authors |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Longlisted for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 |
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's ... read more
