Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...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
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Cleanness is stunning, provocatively revelatory and atmospherically profound. Here is love and sex as art, as pulse, as truth' - Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand ...Show more
Actress by Anne Enright
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Roy's pick From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, o ...Show more
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, ...Show more
For the Good Times by David Keenan
23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 From the author of This Is Memorial Device. 'A gasp-inducing thrill of a ride.' i Independent 'An exhilarating novel, burning with rage, danger and dark humour.' Literary Review 'Remarkable . . . demented brilliance.' Scotland on Sunday Belfast, 1970s: Sammy and his ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019* Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near ...Show more
English Monsters by James Scudamore
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'James Scudamore is now a force in the English novel' Hilary MantelWhen ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the magical freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of unfathomable rules and arbitrary punishment awaits. But so too does the c ...Show more
Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.From New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes her most anticipated book since Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, J ...Show more
Braised Pork by An Yu
34.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband - with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before - dead in the bathtub. Next to him a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can't forget. Prof ...Show more
Pine by Francine Toon
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in t ...Show more
Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The lives of two women--the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her --intersect in a gripping debut novel of hope and resilience, second thoughts and second chances I no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I d ...Show more