La Bagatella or Delineations of Home Scenery - A Descriptive Poem in two parts with notes critical and historical by William Fox
$250.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Writer's Journey - Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
$20.00 NZD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: very good
See why this book has become an international best seller, and a true classic. First published in 1992, The Writer's Journey explores the powerful relationship between mythology and storytelling in a clear, concise style that's made it required reading for movie executives, screenwriters, scholars, ...Show more
Raymond Antrobus - The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary debut from a young British-Jamaican poet, 'Perseverance' is a book of loss, language, and praise. One of the most crucial new voices to emerge from Britain, Raymond Antrobus explores the d/Deaf experience, the death of his father and the failure to communicate. Ranging across history, t ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize | Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers T ...Show more
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her. Zuhur, an Omani student ...Show more
Nohow On - Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/ Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they ca ...Show more