Bewilderment by Richard Powers
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third g ...Show more
Thin Girls - A Novel by Diana Clarke
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships, written by a talented prot g of Roxane Gay. Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; ...Show more
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-ag ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the cha ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get bac ...Show more
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freed ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
Deleted Scenes for Lovers by Tracey Slaughter
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
"The knowledge of everyone they're about to hurt is not an element easy to breathe in. They're the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That's your choice: this is the director's cut." Seventeen powerful stories of contemporary New Zealand life from a writer whose penetrating gaze reveals the ...Show more
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'Kaleidoscopic and beguiling . . . A singular and thrilling debut that shows what happens when objective truth and meaning are drowned in the shifting river of history and politics' ANDREW McMILLAN 'Strange, intriguing, exhilarating' CAMILLA GRUDOVA The almost daughter is almost normal, because she kn ...Show more