Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington Post FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling adventure story, about a boy who rises ...Show more
Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece draws him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker. Keita Mori is a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. He seem ...Show more
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'A remarkably accomplished, polished debut.' Malorie Blackman 'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes ...Show more
We Begin Our Ascent by Joe Mungo Reed
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse but not yet a star. She's a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that or a loss of funding. They've just welcomed their first child into the world, and their bright future lies just befor ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more
Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'In the same vein as Rosalie Ham, Brinsden weaves a compelling story of country Australia with all its stigmas, controversy and beauty.' Fleur McDonald Elise, a beautiful and artistic, if slightly brittle, city girl is rudely transplanted to the undulating, unforgiving plains of the Mallee when her husb ...Show more
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal q ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
Well Met by Jen DeLuca
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irrita ...Show more
Wellness by Nathan Hill
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'A hilarious and moving exploration of a modern marriage that astounds in its breadth and intimacy' - Brit Benett, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half From Nathan Hill, acclaimed author of The Nix, comes another hugely ambitious novel, about how we change, grow and age. Wellness is a story of ...Show more
Wellness - A Novel by Nathan Hill
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society, Wellness reimagin ...Show more
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
$24.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Alice Love surfaces from a strange dream to find she's been injured in a gym, her first concern is for her unborn baby. She's desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her. But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't exactly rushing to her bedside. She is a mother of thre ...Show more