Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wro ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FIC ...Show more
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
$36.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here. 'Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore' JOANNA CANNON 'Touching and honest and funny. I completely and wholeheartedly fell for Lenni and Margot' NINA POTTELL Life is short - no one knows that bette ...Show more
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Heart-rending and heart-warming ...for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her ha ...Show more
Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran
$22.08 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Broken Wings is a poetic novel written by Kahlil Gibran and first published in Arabic in 1912. It is a tale of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut. Evocative, beautifully written and full of stunning imagery, it is also a compelling commentary on the plight of women and many other social ...Show more
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in the gorgeous, sprawling countryside of the Pacific Northwest, Eileen Garvin's The Music of Bees is about finding friendship in the most unlikely of places, and the families we choose for ourselves. Heart-warming, inspirational and redemptive, it is perfect for fans of The Language of Flowers and ...Show more
Listening Still by Anne Griffin
$34.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead - a talent which is both a gift and a curse.Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, t ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
$27.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
This edition of Dwight Allen's acclaimed story collection, The Green Suit, ends with a new story, rounding out a dozen interlinked tales about a well-to-do Kentucky family called the Sackriders. The stories cover a period of forty years, from the Vietnam War to the Age of Foreclosure. Chief among the ...Show more
Klara and the Sun - A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an A ...Show more
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Must a girl always be a part?How can she become a whole?In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is unde ...Show more
In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and the free-spirited Marwa, bring her up with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant. Soon the high wal ...Show more
Bowlaway by E. McCracken
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GIANT'S HOUSE 'A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga...is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith' Marie Claire Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts - ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England ...Show more