Beloved by Toni Morrison
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But the ...Show more
The Ditch by Herman Koch
12.00 NZD
37.00 (67% off)
Category: Literary fiction
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back in laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him-and with the straitla ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Rd crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where he will have more sex (with several members of the same family), harvest mushrooms in the rain, bury his dead father in a ...Show more
Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe- it's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a meal, and lives in a big house with her mum and their Shona housekeeper. Hann ...Show more
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death--and the truth about their marriage--in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. " A] future cult classic." --The New York Times Book Review "There's Borges and Bola o, Ka ...Show more
What Red Was by Rosie Price
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
'I think this is the best debut fiction I've ever read... I'm still in awe of it, I think about it all the time. If you like David Nicholls, Tessa Hadley, Elizabeth Day, Meg Wolitzer, Donna Tartt, then pre-order this book. It's exceptional.' -- Pandora Sykes 'Kate Quaile,' he said. 'I like your name.' ...Show more
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixtee ...Show more
Chances Are by Richard Russo
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo - in his first stand-alone novel in a decade - comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to su ...Show more