Catherine Chidgey

• May-2025
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Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2025 From the acclaimed author of Pet, in an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for th...

• Mar-2024
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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...

• Aug-2023
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A chilling tale of manipulation and misplaced trust in a seemingly idyllic town. Twelve-year-old Justine is captivated by her charismatic new teacher, Mrs. Price, and yearns to be her favorite. But as a series of thefts plague their small New Zealand...

• May-2021
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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...

• Jan-2019
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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...

• Jul-2017
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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...

• May-2005
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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 world has...

• Mar-2002
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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...

• Jul-2001
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A tale of murder mystery and Meccano Golden Deeds tells the story of the middle-aged Patrick Mercer, lying unconscious in a hospital bed: of the teenaged Laura Pearse's disappearance and the grieving of her bereft parents; and the story of Colette, a...

• Feb-2000
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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. Clifford taught Gene about how to find r...