Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$50.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
An irresistibly original and punchy novel inspired by the fall of Robert Mugabe, from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet BulawayoGlory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world ...Show more
The Trees by Percival Everett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. The detec ...Show more
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day – a wanderer, a healer – an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to ...Show more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
$38.00 NZD
Category: Booker Longlist 2020
'A truly gifted writer' Sebastian Barry 'Pure gold' Emma Donoghue 'Remarkable. It will haunt readers' Chigozie Obioma WHAT MAKES A HOME A HOME? TELL ME A STORY I CAN DREAM ON . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their f ...Show more
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail 'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the wr ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Booker Winner 2020
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Post-Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long t ...Show more
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, MAN V. NATURE. Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wa ...Show more
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
$35.00 NZD
Category: 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
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread - an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection. Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways an ...Show more
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a ...Show more