Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift ...Show more
The Singularity by Balsam Karam
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Lyrical and breathtaking, a study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists. In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter's name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The moth ...Show more
None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan 'Seriously good' Louise Nealon PICKED AS 'ONE TO WATCH' FOR 2022 BY IRISH TIMES, STYLIST AND IRISH INDEPENDENT Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ...Show more
Bubble Entendre by Mark Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Semina No. 3 | Reading Level: very good
Brazen sadists, high-flying hopheads, invisible strippers and the destiny of objects are just some of the themes tackled by Mark Waugh in Bubble Entendre, a tripartite, literary bender. Dirty, dingy and drug fuelled, Willhelm Reich might have penned this book if he'd been force-fed LSD and subjected to ...Show more
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reissued to coincide with the release of her new novel 'That Old Ace in the Hole', Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular r ...Show more
Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A musician, a worker, a big-hearted fool. A woman who has prevailed against the toughest gangsters of the day, defying police time and again, yet is now trapped in a prison cell. Guilty or innocent? Rollicking throu ...Show more
Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, l ...Show more
The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers-on the run after a hit-and-run accident-who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Julie Otsuka's "The Buddha in the Attic", the follow-up to "When the Emperor Was Divine" was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. Between the first and second world wars a group of young ...Show more
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more