Julia 1984 by Sandra Newman
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, f ...Show more
The River We Remember: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Fourteen Days: A Unique Collaborative Novel From a Star-Studded Cast of Writers by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Led by Margaret Atwood, a star-studded cast create a dazzling, heartwarming response to the darkness cast by the pandemic. Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist- each character has been secretly written ...Show more
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all identity information is encoded in digital language. Nations know where everyone is, all the time. Not everyone agrees with this constant surveillance, and when the system is hijacked and shut down, all gl ...Show more
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An unforgettable novel about the enduring power of connection in a world of increasing distance, from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'I just adore Sigrid Nunez' Paula Hawkins 'Nunez is unparalleled when it comes to tapping into the immediacy of grief, love, and exhau ...Show more
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From the bestselling, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot, a novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide again after a crisis... Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. T ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
45.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White TigerA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hol ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more