Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
$30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph'A beguiling page-turner... To read The Accidental is to ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
Honour by Elif Shafak
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures.'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten' Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions an ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - bo ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease- some resign themselves to fate, some seek bla ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drench ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall is ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$24.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
$37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the author of the wonderful Beautiful Ruins comes an erudite and beguiling new novel. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dream ...Show more
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
$35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid ...Show more
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
$37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball cou ...Show more