Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city. But this boo ...Show more
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency. "At that time, there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into ...Show more
The Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O'Reilly
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A beautifully observed, wryly funny novel set in the Australian outback. Single mother Loretta Boskovic may have fantasies about dumping her two kids in the orphanage and riding off on a Harley with her dream lover, but her reality is life in a dusty country town called Gunapan. A self-dubbed 'old scrag ...Show more
The Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O'Reilly
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
If you loved A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, you'll love The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother Loretta Boskovic may have fantasies about dumping her two kids in the orphanage and riding off on a Harley with her dream lover, but her reality is life in a dusty country town called Gunapan. A sel ...Show more
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When she grew up, Ruth would say that she could place the day that her mother had decided to go away. She didn't know the actual date, but she recalled the occasion: it was on the afternoon of a wet day, early in 1942, during a visit to the cinema. She thought she could even pinpoint the exact moment at ...Show more
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of the bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Hours, a beautiful novel about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca ...Show more
August and Then Some by David Prete
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A gripping literary novel from a striking new voice in American fiction. New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working ...Show more
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$31.10 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George E ...Show more
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s--the country is in ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an Exhibition, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. "Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?" "I'm going to die." "We're all going to die. Does dying frighten you?" "I mean I'm going to ...Show more
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more
The Second Life of Sally Mottram by David Nobbs
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin. Long-time Potherthwaite resident Sally Mottram cannot stand the decline of her town. The bookshop is about to close, abandoned buildings line the canal and Potherthwaite's residents seem stuck in a dish ...Show more