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 Review A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A suspenseful new psychological thriller from the Wo...

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