Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Euphoria by Elin Cullhed
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is ...Show more
The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries Ser.
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village. Centuries ...Show more
Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
$45.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermath-both a page-turning whodunit and a deeply touching coming-of-age story by one of Sweden's top criminologists "When the body of a young woman is discovered in an incinerated farmhous ...Show more
Eva Luna: Popular Penguins by Isabel Allende
$16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest in South America. Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother is a servan ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Watch Us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter. The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stan ...Show more
The Silence of Scheherazade by Defne Suman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother in the ancient city of Sm ...Show more
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde; Richard Philcox (Translator)
$42.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
"French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporaryMartinique. Readers will be transfixed." --Publishers Weekly, starred review A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbea ...Show more
Boulder by Eva Baltasar
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportu ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more