Catherine Chidgey

• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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When Clifford Stilton dies, his son gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family's world. In a Fishbone Church tells the story of three gen...

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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Golden Deeds tells the story of the middle-aged Patrick Mercer, lying unconscious in a hospital bed; of the teenaged Laura Pearses disappearance and the grieving of her bereft parents; and the story of Colette, a young woman seeking a new life in a s...

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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"[Chidgey] has written an elegant, connect-the-dots novel, in which each step the characters make toward one another proves emotionally treacherous."--The New Yorker

When Colette receives a letter from The Friends of Patrick Mercer about a...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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From the writer described as “the most fabulous New Zealand writer alive” (Listener NZ) comes a masterful novel, with the power of Patrick Suskind’s Perfume.

Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1898 is a frontier, where the progress of the modern wor...

• Jul-2017
• / Historical
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This international bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of WW II Germany Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechani...

• Jan-2019
• / General Fiction
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The Beat of the Pendulum is a `found novel', the result of one year in which Catherine Chidgey drew upon the language she encountered on a daily basis, such as news stories, radio broadcasts, emails, social media, street signs, TV, and many conversat...

• May-2021
• / Literary
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This polyphonic novel of an S.S. officer, his ailing wife, and a concentration camp survivor “marks a vital turn in Holocaust literature” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Being appointed administrator of the Buchenwald work camp is a major adv...

• Aug-2023
• / Thriller
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Washington Post・The New Yorker ・Slate・CrimeReads・Good Housekeeping・Amazon Book ReviewA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA suspenseful new psychological thriller from the Women’s Prize for Fiction longliste...

• Mar-2024
• / General Fiction
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WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDSA dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humorTama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie...