Dykette: A Novel by Jenny Fran Davis
39.99 NZD
Category: Literary
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples. Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brookly ...Show more
Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis
37.99 NZD
Category: Literary
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes. The sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, commu ...Show more
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: Literary
Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *'Filled with th ...Show more
The Visitors by Jane Harrison
36.99 NZD
Category: Literary
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...Show more
Foxash by Kate Worsley
37.99 NZD
Category: Literary
'A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley's fiction is something to savour' Sarah Waters'A rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. Exquisitely written and deeply original, with secrets that are tightly layered, always surprising an ...Show more
The Saint of Lost Things: A Guardian Summer Read by Tish Delaney
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
'One of the most arresting voices of her generation' OBSERVERFROM THE WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2022'Reading The Saint of Lost Things was one of those perfect reading experiences that come along very occasionally; it's moving, funny, tragic, triumphant, totally gripping, a pure ...Show more
Americanah 10th Anniversary Edition by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
24.99 NZD
Category: Literary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel--a story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they c ...Show more
A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers
37.99 NZD
Category: Literary
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS 'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller' David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man 'A spellbinding and totally original thriller' Philipp Meyer, author of The Son An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
39.99 NZD
Category: Literary
An exploration of Tolkien's influences by renowned expert John Garth. 'Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life.' - The Times A ...Show more
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists: A Sparkling Miscellany of Literary Lists by Henry Eliot
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary
A sparkling miscellany of literary triviaWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compil ...Show more