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The Testaments (PB) by Margaret Atwood
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after t ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving—and astonishing—best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escap ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, Hamnet is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play. TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes t ...Show more
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment . . . it throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel From the acclaimed author of <i>Ghost Wall</i>, <i>Summerwater</i> is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands, an ...Show more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'A truly gifted writer' Sebastian Barry 'Pure gold' Emma Donoghue 'Remarkable. It will haunt readers' Chigozie Obioma WHAT MAKES A HOME A HOME? TELL ME A STORY I CAN DREAM ON . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their f ...Show more
Bluebird by Malcolm Knox
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' - The Guardian A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb. A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Pr ...Show more
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
$23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A mesmerizing new historical novel" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Kor ...Show more
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
$35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread - an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection. Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways an ...Show more
We, the Survivors - A Novel by Tash Aw
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and ...Show more
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
$33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'As natural as the grass grows.' - Chinua Achebe '[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.' - Doris Lessing '[A] Masterpiece.' - New York Times 'Searing and enlightening.' Sefi Atta, author of Everything Good Will Come. In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channe ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two year ...Show more