The Secret Scripture (Film Tie In) by Sebastian Barry
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relation ...Show more
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs by Christopher Reid
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and ready bunch: You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . . But if they strike you as friendly, funny, Full of bounce and fond of a romp, Forgetful of poetic pomp, I trust you'll take them ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Blankets by Craig Thompson
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
First UK publication for this modern classic 'It's beautifully written and drawn, it's very poetic and very romantic. I highly recommend it.' ELENA FAVILLI 'Moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan.' NEIL GAIMAN 'Blankets i ...Show more
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for which his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an amb ...Show more
The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further, the mystery deepens, and he finds himself confronting his own secret ...Show more
The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
"A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love."--Sara Gruen, author of At the Water's Edge and Water for Elephants An epic, inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family thr ...Show more
The Paris Diversion by Chris Pavone
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The explosive sequel to the top ten bestseller The Expats, The Paris Diversion takes place over the course of one nail-biting day. Kate Moore - a mother with an interesting past - is living the quiet life in another European city, or trying to. On her way to drop her children off at school in the city ...Show more
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to ...Show more
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic P ...Show more
In the City of Love's Sleep by Lavinia Greenlaw
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters in a house that's falling down. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in. They meet by chance, nothing important is said, y ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the last thing she ever wanted to be. De ...Show more