So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each o ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that toget ...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
The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A runaway bestseller, and the winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, The Anomaly is the bestselling international sensation that asks - What would you do, if there were two of you? When Air France flight 006 departed from Paris, the route to New York was just as it had always been. The skie ...Show more
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I believe I have just discovered one of my favourite books this year. Two story lines, one set in the early 19th century takes us from the gentle Suffolk countryside to the battlefields of Waterloo and the ports of Spain where we follow and reflect on the life, loves and fortunes of Waterloo veteran and ...Show more