Welcome to the Heady Heights by David F. Ross
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A gritty, dark, hilarious and all-too-believable drama about the elusivity of stardom, in an age when 'making it' was 'having it all' ... 'A real new talent on the Scottish literary scene' Press and Journal 'Ross brings his ever-so-dark humour and caustic eye to 1970's Glasgow, and it proves to be the ...Show more
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among ...Show more
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American ...Show more
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Named by the Guardian as one of the top ten modern Nordic fiction books 'An edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Ferocious, inventive and unlike anything I've read in a long time' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 'A brave novel reminiscent of Irv ...Show more
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton . Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she com ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly u ...Show more
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The book that inspired the box office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton. Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life. On arrival, however ...Show more
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
$48.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
White skin, green eyes, red hair...Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. ...Show more
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one aft ...Show more
A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in quest ...Show more
Two More Pints by Roddy Doyle
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Two men meet for a pint - or two - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell...In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle's drinkers ponder: a topless Kate Middleton; Barack and Michelle Obama ('fuckin' gorgeous'); David Beckham ('Would you t ...Show more
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
$28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he ...Show more