The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. ...Show more
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Whatever the neighbours insisted would be worth keeping a body for, he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data. A young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child - her own - from a go ...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 Korean ...Show more
Nightingale by Marina Kemp
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'The bastard offspring of Ian McEwan and Shirley Conran... a rollercoaster of a read with serious intent' A moving and masterful novel about sex, death, passion and prejudice in a sleepy village in the south of France Marguerite Demers is twenty-four when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern villa ...Show more
Ride a Cockhorse by Raymond Kennedy
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Brimming with snappy dialogue and gleeful obscenity, Ride a Cockhorse is a rollicking cautionary tale and one of the finest portrayals every created of a female antiheroine - resist her at your peril!
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Zoe Pilger's wildly funny debut novel, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.
Meanwhile in Dopamine City by D. B. C. Pierre
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann – his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye – has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will ...Show more
Jungfrau by Dymphna Cusack
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Dymphna Cusack's ground-breaking novel about women's sexuality and aspirations in Australia.
Dublin Palms by Hugo Hamilton
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind. The narrator of Dublin Palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and ...Show more
At the Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times. Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little ...Show more
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and ...Show more
Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations ...Show more