Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their chi ...Show more
The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has fai ...Show more
The Wolves of Eternity (Morning Star #2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Two adult siblings learn of their surprising shared history in this searching prequel to The Morning Star, set between Norway and Russia The future is no more, and eternity has begun.Norway, 1986. The government is in crisis, and far away in Russia, a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert L ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismember ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent pa ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES. A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS! A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans. Against changing sea ...Show more
Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: near fine
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the hear ...Show more