At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
**Winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize** The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's ...Show more
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The major new novel from one of the world's greatest writers It's a typical summer night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at a summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil is staying nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar, journal ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good-near fine
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Misunderstanding in Moscow by Simone de Beauvoir
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
Previously unpublished in the UK, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life. A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and Andre, a r ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murder ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, ad ...Show more