Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss. They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. But these men ...Show more
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the highly acclaimed author of The Panopticon and one of Granta's Best Young British Writers comes the new novel THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is ...Show more
Painting Death by Tim Parks
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high society Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family he has now become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it' ...Show more
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Nathaniel Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean, striving years and an early life as a class-A nerd, he now (to his surprise) has a lucrative book deal, his pick of plum magazine assignments, and the attentions of many desirable women: Juliet, the hotshot business journ ...Show more
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this time set in a run-down B&B in Wales. When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. In p ...Show more
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel r ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The fearless Kopp sisters are back in another unforgettable romp by HWA-longlisted international bestseller Amy Stewart.It's 1917, and the US Army is marching to join its allies in the First World War. Constance Kopp and her sisters may not be soldiers, but that doesn't mean they can't do their bit. All ...Show more
Blue Fox (The) by Sjón; Victoria Cribb (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 'Enchantingly poetic . . . spellbinding . . . magical . . . exceptional' Independent The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. From there we're trans ...Show more
Daughter of the Tigris by Muhsin Al-Ramli; Luke Leafgren (Translator)
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's Gardens On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she find one body among thousands? For Tari ...Show more
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Out of the Hitler Time
This semi-autobiographical and unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: "The most life-enhancing book you c ...Show more