Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, h ...Show more
Our Happy Days by Julia Holbe
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Set on the French Atlantic coast, Our Happy Days is a warm, vivid holiday novel about friendship, romance and the memories of our youth A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal-and the memories of a summer that changed things forever. Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa s ...Show more
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighb ...Show more
Violeta by Isabel Allende
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAILOne e ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Marquez 2014
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the mor ...Show more
The Kamogawa Food Detectives (#1) by Hisashi Kashiwai
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare. Customers who can find the hidden diner are treated to an extravagant meal, but it's not the main reason for visiting . . . The father-daughter duo have started adve ...Show more
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Marquez 2014
Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its for ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, her la ...Show more
The Details: Shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize by Ia Genberg
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION)WINNER OF THE AFTONBLADET LITERARY PRIZE 2022'I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman, author of A MAN CALLED OVE'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' Catherine Lacey, NEW YORK TIMES'Textured insights into human nature' THE N ...Show more
She and her Cat: for fans of Travelling Cat Chronicles and Convenience Store Woman by MAKOTO SHINKAI
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The Japanese bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrationsTHE PERFECT CURL-UP READ FOR CAT-LOVERS IN A SPECIAL CHRISTMASSY PACKAGE'Compassionate and touching' DAILY MAIL'Goes to show how cats will save us all' Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and t ...Show more
The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne ...Show more