Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now by Ben Ratliff
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The most significant revolution in the recent history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly flit across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. Yet music criticism ha ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A hugely charming, genuinely uplifting story that shows it's never too late for new adventures and unexpected friendship - for fans of HAROLD FRY, DEAR MRS BIRD and THE LIBRARIAN. Meet Eve, who has departed from her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indiffer ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364 When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's const ...Show more
The Listeners by Jordan Tanahill, Jordan Tannahill
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America. While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise begins causing Claire headaches, ...Show more
Cold Boy's Wood by Carol Birch
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A body is uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of a murder, but Dan – sometime mechanic, constant drunk – is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. 'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' GUARDIAN ...Show more
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
$32.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family--a wife and two kids--the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength. Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer 'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times A deeply personal novel of identi ...Show more
Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Evan S. Connell's "Mrs Bridge" is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of "Then We Came to the End" ...Show more
The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls are about to swim their way to the Olympics -- and a new life. In an unnamed Soviet state, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the water's surface. But soon the game becomes something mor ...Show more