Elegy For April by BLACK Benjamin
$41.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter's request for help. B ...Show more
Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The English are an unusual bunch: quirky and eccentric, often reserved and reticent, but always strong and resilient. Tory Pace, the heroine of this beautifully written and hilarious black comedy, is all of these things. Typically, she's trying to make the best of life in a difficult time: struggling, a ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONJack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Refreshingly romantic, dangerously good fun, hugely addictive' - Joanne Harris, author of "Chocolat Charlie". St. Cloud was a blessed boy, destined to do good things in high places. But all that changed the night he survived the car crash that killed his little brother, Sam. Years later, Charlie is sti ...Show more
Solace by Belinda McKeon
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 16
'A wonderful novel. I was deeply moved. Outstanding.' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else was possible. Soon they start a relationship that i ...Show more
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Following the Man Booker-longlisted "Self Help", Edward Docx's electrifying new novel takes us to the heart of the Amazon. Dr Forle is a scientist working deep in the South American jungle on the last inhabited river station before the impassable interior. Every day, his research takes him into the stra ...Show more
At Last: Patrick Melrose Novels # 5 by Edward St. Aubyn
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is the eagerly anticipated new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mother's Milk. For Patrick Melrose, 'family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor - an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringi ...Show more
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 16
Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Different in so many ways Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family, and a beautiful home. Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apart from ...Show more
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. "You're a villain," she tells him. "A serial kill ...Show more
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, ...Show more
Next to Love by Ellen Feldman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the Orange Prize Shortlisted author of Scottsboro comes a heartbreaking saga of love and loss in the aftermath of war
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
$21.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian ...Show more