The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin
39.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
‘A stunning, ingenious, truly immersive mystery. The Turnglass is a thrilling delight' Chris Whitaker Stuart Turton meets The Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of clever crime fiction. Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche ...Show more
America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by shameless delusion and deceit. At 11:34 a.m. one ...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
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a baggin ...Show more
On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard- ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him until a chance encounter changes everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Orego ...Show more
Shrines of Gaiety (PB) by Kate Atkinson
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. At the heart of this glittering w ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, BBC, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, IRISH TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESMaryam and Zahra.In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and ...Show more
Dr. No by Percival Everett
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Wala Kitu is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. W ...Show more
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner wh ...Show more
The Book of Devices by Ihsan Oktay Anar
34.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Ihsan Oktay Anar's 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author's fictional world set in the Ottoman times. Here are the wonderful histories of the triumphs and tribulations of three Ottoman inventors, "as reported by the narrators of events and relators of traditi ...Show more
Dinosaurs - A Novel by Lydia Millet
51.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. He ...Show more