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The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
$22.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the fami ...Show more
We Are Not in the World by Conor O'Callaghan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart.' Kamila Shamsie Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-somethin ...Show more
First Person Singular - Stories by Haruki Murakami
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$37.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one o ...Show more
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
'A love letter to Japan and its literature.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected wa ...Show more
GRANTA 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$36.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, wha ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) wi ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$37.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more