Blackouts - A Novel by Justin Torres
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction A Most Anticipated Read: The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost historie ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream. In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mans ...Show more
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.-Jonathan Lethem A film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head arrives on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969. Vikar Jerome enters the vortex of a cultural transformation: ...Show more
10:04 by Ben Lerner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new. 10:04 is a work of endless wit, pleasure, relevance, and vitality." --Rachel Kushner, author of The FlamethrowersLeaving the Atocha Station was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels...of his gene ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts They will come for you, man. ...Show more
The Business by Iain Banks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Business is a nearly omnipotent and infinitely discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church, if not the Roman Empire (which the Business actually owned for sixty-six days). Financially transparent, internally democratic, and morally dispassionate, the actual business ...Show more
A Snow Goose & Other Utopian Fictions by Jim Perrin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the first full-length collection of short stories by travel writer and master of mountain literature Jim Perrin. Mystery, romanticism and tragedy abound in these four fictional tales, beginning with the title story, which reimagines the fated Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845 as an eco-f ...Show more
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel by actress and presenter Janet Ellis. A dark and twisted tale set in 18th century London.Georgian London, in the summer of 1763.At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. T ...Show more
October - A Novel by Richard B Wright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Entwining two stories spanning past and present, cruelty and desire, Richard B. Wright weaves a memorable meditation on life and memory, love and death.