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The Testaments (PB) by Margaret Atwood
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction | Series: Handmaid's Tale #2
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
Prosopagnosia by Sonia Hernandez
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for her, or that she isn’t destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It’s why her main activity, when she’s not at school, is playing the ‘prosopagnosia gam ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one o ...Show more
The Octopus Man by Jasper Gibson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'Funny. Disturbing. Brilliant.' Lily Allen 'A beautiful thing, this is The Dharma Bums meet Clozapine. Now is the time for this book.' DBC Pierre Once an outstanding law student, Tom is now lost in the machinery of the British mental health system, talking to a voice no one else can hear: the voice of M ...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 cha ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, Double Blind is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge - for pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, survival - and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover, Franci ...Show more
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
$33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and do ...Show more
Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'Incredibly funny and honest . . . I loved it' NELL FRIZZELL You're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that rings in your ears. Because you never say the right thing. You're a disappointment to everyone. You're a far cry from beautiful - and your thoughts are ugly ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATE ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
__________________________mountweazel, noun- a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipate ...Show more
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Half a million copies sold - Winner of the Japan Booksellers Award voted for by the booksellers across Japan - CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN with a fantasy twist, exploring emotional and anxiety issues in modern-day Japan. How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil ne ...Show more