The Young Man by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." -Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigor ...Show more
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: 1q84 Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems n ...Show more
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; it ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more
Beyond The Door of No Return by David Diop (translated by Sam Taylor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century Senegal. The Door of No Return, on the island of Goree off the coast of Senegal, is where millions of Africans last touched their home continent's soil ...Show more
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (translated by Frank Wynne)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From the author of the 'extraordinary' Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by the past. In the soft morning light, a man, a woman, and a child drive to Les ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material ...Show more
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together ...Show more
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve, in this emotionally powerful, thrillingly paced gothic road trip, from the author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightene ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives ...Show more