A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. An ...Show more
A Moonless, Starless Sky - Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
$18.58 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a ...Show more
A Thousand Distant Radios by Woody Skinner
$11.43 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Painting modern America in saturated colors, this collection of short stories explores the passions and compulsions at the core of our national identity: those qualities that propel us forward or hold us back; that make us strangers to ourselves and others even while we pine for connection; the ways we ...Show more
Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún
$16.43 NZD
Category: Translation
The award-winning and haunting novel from Rodrigo Hasb n, the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, "a great writer," about an unusual family's breakdown--set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl. Inspired by real events, A ...Show more
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
$21.44 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 ...Show more
Alpine Apprentice by Sarah Gorham; John Griswold (Contribution by)
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Crux: the Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.
Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, all i ...Show more
American Eclipse - A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
$45.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring rid ...Show more
Augustown by Kei Miller
$18.54 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD 'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMES One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. N ...Show more
Bark by Georges Didi-Huberman; Samuel E. Martin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Translation
A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, ...Show more
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid
$40.95 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn't think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collectio ...Show more
Because When God Is Too Busy - Haiti, Me, and the WORLD by Gina Athena Ulysse
$7.37 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
Gina Athena Ulysse's Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me & THE WORLD is a lyrically vivid meditative journey that is unapologetic in its determination to name, embrace and reclaim a revolutionary Blackness that has been historically stigmatized and denied. Crafting experiments with "ethnographic ...Show more
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
$52.95 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The New York Times bestseller "It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." --David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Hands-down one of the best books I've read in years ...Show more