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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$22.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
$75.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompani ...Show more
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. Parlaying his wealth into an empire, Richard deve ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'You have to read Apeirogon' Sunday Times 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'An essential hymn to peace and forgiveness' independent.co.uk The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live ...Show more
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie, who has the most money, insi ...Show more
The Jacaranda House (The Restless Years #3) by Deborah Challinor
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Restless Years
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her br ...Show more
You (Netflix Tie-In) by Caroline Kepnes
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: YOU Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Soon to be a major NETFLIX series starring Elizabeth Lail (Once Upon a Time) and Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl)**'Thriller of the Year' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen KingWhen a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do ...Show more
Actress by Anne Enright
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roy's pick From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, o ...Show more
Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth
$32.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes, 'HILARIOUS' Dolly Alderton, 'TENDER' Jessie Burton, 'MAGNIFICENT' Daisy Buchanan, 'INCREDIBLE' Candice Carty Williams, 'MOVING' Laura Jane Williams, 'BRILLIANT' Nikesh Shukla, 'I LOVED IT' Sam Baker, 'PAINFULLY TRUE' Kate Davies Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unf ...Show more