7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$36.99 NZD
Category: Modern
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine: A Novel by Klara Hveberg
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICKA remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of Asymmetry, that combines fractal mathematics and classic ...Show more
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and ...Show more
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
$33.00 NZD
Category: Modern
‘Harrowing and heartening in equal measure, this book is a breathtaking tale of racial fissures, fury and friendship' David Lammy, MP and author of Tribes ‘A powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice – and the stunning ways they intersect…Empathetic, riveting, and authentic' ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Modern
'Ash Davidson reminds us that we are never more profoundly shaped by our environment than when we destroy it. Nearly every page left me in awe' Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena For generations, Rich Gunderson's family has chopped a living out of the redwood forest on Californi ...Show more
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Ekkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equip ...Show more
Bright Burning Things (PB) by Lisa Harding
$33.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Being Tommy's mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy's life is in her hands. Once there was the th ...Show more
Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
‘Deliciously dark, full of simmering menace.' KAREN HAMILTON‘Twisted, compelling, devastating.' SAMANTHA DOWNING‘This is Mean Girls all grown up, with a very dark twist.' ELLE CROFT- A darkly intoxicating novel of female friendship and obsession, perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa, The Girls and The Vi ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more
Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more