Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a ...Show more
On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
15.00 NZD
33.00 (54% off)
Category: Sale Books Old
**NEW** A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and traine ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
50.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirschenbaum
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny -an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer-fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, whe ...Show more
Nightingale by Marina Kemp
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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 village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the mos ...Show more
Masks by Fumiko Enchi
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Masks (1958) takes its name from the Noh masks of Japanese dramas, and much is made of spirit possession. This is a curiously elegant and scandalous tale of sexual deception and revenge. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikame ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020. The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and ...Show more
Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch
12.00 NZD
33.00 (63% off)
Category: Literary fiction
A powerful, devastating, and redemptive novel by the award-winning author of GRACE. BEYOND THE SEA tells the tale of two South American fishermen, Bolivar and Hector, who go to sea before a sudden storm. Cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, the two men must come to terms with their environment, and each ot ...Show more
Doxology by Nell Zink
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink. Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to s ...Show more
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
12.00 NZD
30.00 (60% off)
Category: Sale Books
Named a New York Times Notable Book of the YearShortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel PrizeNamed a Booklist Best Book of the YearA mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to ch ...Show more
Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Edenfollows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole, co ...Show more
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more