Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to su ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
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 church, red-bric ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last by Edward St Aubyn
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and fath ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Man Booker-winning The Famished Road, a young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words - Who is the Prisoner?This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. The answer is im ...Show more
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 Guardian's Best Books of 2017Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017Observer Best Books of 2017Financial Times Best Books of 2017 "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise w ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
22.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian Mc ...Show more
A Death in the Family (#1 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction | Series: My Struggle
"'It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith /b>arl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpred ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
20.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
"Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America." --The New York Times Book Review The House of t ...Show more