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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah Beckerman, Observer * You've heard the old proverb about ambition, that it's like setting a ladder to the sky. It ca ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris. - Observer Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral r ...Show more
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
$26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary ... A thing of lasting beauty' ObserverWaterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the mi ...Show more
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and ...Show more
Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a compassionate, compelling new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. 'It's delicious, it's dear, it's heart-breaking and very funny' Rachel Joyce 'An incredibly beautiful story told with compassion. Nothing ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'The most extraordinary writer - a rare talent' Nikki Gemmell An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crimina ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A POWERFULLY EVOCATIVE AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CORELLI'S MANDOLIN They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of t ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From Tim Winton, Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of Cloudstreet, comes The Shepherd's Hut, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of self-discovery in one of the harshest, near-uninhabitable climates on Earth. Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved ...Show more
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more
A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the Mc ...Show more
Jott by Sam Thompson
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux. Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled frie ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale of hop ...Show more
