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Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
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
Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A bold new literary novel from the author of the award-winning The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke. Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, ...Show more
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she ru ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Seasonal Quartet
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted, Seasonal Quartet. "A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trou ...Show more
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound meditation on life, death, and lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the re ...Show more
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Compelling new novel of stigma and secrecy from Sunday Times bestseller It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for the wedding of two of its young inhabitants. They're barely adults, not so long out of school and still part of the same set of friends they've grown up with. As the friends ...Show more
The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
For readers of Station Eleven and Everything I Never Told You, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last birds – and her own final chance for redemption. A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. How far you would you go for love? Franny St ...Show more
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels total ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find he ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for gui ...Show more