The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu, Byeong-mo ; Chi-Young Kim (translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed isolation, with just her dog, Deadweight, for company. While on an assassination job for the 'disease control' compa ...Show more
Patagonia Route 203 by Eduardo Varela; Peter Bush (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A multi-award-winning road-trip novel that takes us on a journey of love and escape through the vast and magical landscape of Patagonia, where nothing and no-one are what they seem.
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
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Marquez 2014 | Reading Level: very good
One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.
The Fire by Daniela Krien
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
How can two lovers find a way back to each other, when the pain of the past stands between them? With plans adrift after a fire burns down their rented holiday cabin, Rahel and Peter find themselves unexpectedly on an isolated farm where Rahel spent many a happy childhood summer. Suddenly, after years ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marias
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATORThe final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store' The ...Show more
The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries Ser.
The scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates a series of gruesome murders within the feuding family of a brooding, troubled composer, whose most famous work chills the blood of all who hear it. The Devil’s Flute Murders is an ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of c ...Show more
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity a ...Show more
Love Me Tender by Constance Debre
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son, Paul. Laurent trained Paul to say he no longer wants to see his mother, and the judge believed him. She approaches this new life with passionate intensity and th ...Show more
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn
$35.00 NZD
$35.70 (1% off)
Category: Fiction A-Z
WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and ...Show more