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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
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
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times 'Sublime and immersive … If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend' JOJO MOYES'A surefire summer hit ... feels at once like a gift and an escape route' Observer196 ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. R ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the author of Normal People. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. He ...Show more
Little Fires Everywhere (TVTI) by Celeste Ng
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding ro ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
$32.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (The Nobel Lecture) by Kazuo Ishiguro
$13.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in t ...Show more
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread - an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection. Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways a ...Show more
House of Earth and Blood (#1 Crescent City) by Sarah J. Maas
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Crescent City
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinla ...Show more
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again? Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and narcot ...Show more