Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize | Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers T ...Show more
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her. Zuhur, an Omani student ...Show more
Nohow On - Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/ Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
Viper by Bex Hogan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Isles of Storm and Sorrow | Reading Level: good-very good
"He will make me a killer. Or he will have me killed. That is my destiny." Seventeen-year-old Marianne is fated to one day become the Viper, defender of the Twelve Isles. But the reigning Viper stands in her way. Corrupt and merciless, he prowls the seas in his warship, killing with impunity, leaving on ...Show more
Joy Cowley - The Complete Short Stories by Joy Cowley
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good