The Winners by Fredrik Backman
$29.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
‘It’s often said that winners write history, but there are no winners here’ This is a small story about big questions. It's a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm - and a death. But how does it end? Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Every ...Show more
The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante's Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Born into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families. Her work is simple and honest; taught by her nonna, she skilfull ...Show more
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature "A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core."--New York Times A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and w ...Show more
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
"Eyes mark the shape of the cityi>he midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed- a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy slee ...Show more
Us Against You (#2 Beartown) by Fredrik Backman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book' Jojo Moyes Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead . . . Us Against You is the story of two towns, two teams and what it means to b ...Show more
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by ...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
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
My Husband by Maud Ventura
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
A dangerously charming French thriller about a woman's obsession for her husband 'One of the most daring, provocative, unnervingly intimate thrillers I've read in years. Few writers besides Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith can evoke domestic unease with such sangfroid; fewer still can make it such de ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
"Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the ...Show more
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
Animalia tells the confronting and compelling story of a peasant family in south-west France as they develop their plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of two world wars, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal i ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more