Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. A mother and ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last by Edward St Aubyn
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and fath ...Show more
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality t ...Show more
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYESProfessor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. In the moments after the bicycle accident, he doesn't see his life flash before his eyes, but his life's wor ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. ...Show more
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern
From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note h ...Show more
How to be Brave by Beech Louise
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A mother battles to save her child's life by recounting an extraordinary true story of a sailor's fight for survival at sea during the Second World War ... a beautiful, poignant debut celebrating the power of words, and what it really means to be brave.***Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize***'It's ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Wolf Hall 2
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The ...Show more
Murmur by Will Eaves
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
"[Murmur will] grip your mind in the very first pages, break your heart halfway through, and in the end, strangely, unexpectedly, restore your faith in human beings and their endless capacity for resilience." --Wellcome Book Prize chair of judges Elif Shafak in the Guardian "Eaves' playful, fiercely int ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, tradin ...Show more