The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, featuring the country's best-loved detective. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of b ...Show more
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Marquez 2014
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.' Fifty-one ...Show more
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Lit ...Show more
The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
An acclaimed, bestselling novel - a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to power of Putin's notorious spin doctor He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming political advisor to Putin. After he resig ...Show more
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami en ...Show more
Simple Passion - UK ed. by Annie Ernaux
$23.00 NZD
$27.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, ...Show more
Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIlja Leonard Pfeijffer's moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.'A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages' Trouw (The Netherlands)'The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the allit ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, 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? In a s ...Show more
The Vegetarian by Deborah Smith; Han Kang
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptabl ...Show more
A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A vibrant historical novel following a tenacious and quick-witted young Japanese girl who becomes the protegee of a highest-ranking courtesan, from Akutagawa-Prize winner Kiyoko Murata From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Kiyoko Murata comes a dazzling historical novel about the courtesans whose strike b ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more