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 Funi ...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
Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they ca ...Show more
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
The Mysterious Correspondent - New Stories by Marcel Proust
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen-the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes ...Show more
Pnin by Vladímir Nabokov
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics | Reading Level: very good
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous he ...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