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
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power a ...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
Clear (HB) by Carys Davies
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West. 1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on th ...Show more
Macbeth (an Undoing) by Zinnie Harris
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris's powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy, telling Lady Macbeth's story as it has never been heard before.
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An unforgettable story of four incredible women: this novel combines the depth, and flair of The Seven Moons Maali Almeida with the devastating brilliance and truth of A Brief History of Seven Killings. FROM THE WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020 AND THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021 A voice ...Show more
The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Translation is longing. You never get it right.'Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to celeb ...Show more
How to Make a Bomb - A Novel by Rupert Thomson
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificialEverything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in itPhilip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpecte ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
**AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER** **Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer** 'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE 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 changed every ...Show more