Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Off Speed - Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception by Terry McDermott
$17.11 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The lively and fascinating story of the 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch--the ultimate Father's Day gift for any dad who loves baseball. Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect game against the Tampa Bay ...Show more
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
$50.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Seale ...Show more
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco
$18.58 NZD
Category: Translation
After suffering violence and betrayal at home, a young boy flees into an uncompromising landscape ravaged by drought. Without food or water, exposed to the heat of the sun and the violence of his pursuers, the boy sets out across the Spanish plains. An encounter with an elderly goatherd offers hope of ...Show more
Some Say the Lark by Jennifer Chang
$11.39 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Some Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination--the familiar world rendered strange." --Natasha Trethewey Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. Wi ...Show more
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi
$11.43 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
A fevered, lyrical debut about two young women drawn into an ever-intensifying friendship set against the stark, haunted landscape of the Sonoran desert and the ecstatic frenzy of New York City. Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert subur ...Show more
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
$18.58 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
I will never forget the first time I read Jenny Zhang ... I was stunned, moved and quite frankly a little jealous ' Lena Dunham These seven startling stories of family, femininity, sexuality and otherness will plunge you into the tender and chaotic hearts of narrators you won 't easily forget. Centred ...Show more
Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
In the mid-1960s, boxer Cassius Clay was young, successful, brash, and hugely admired. Then he joined the Nation of Islam, renounced his "slave name," and redubbed himself Muhammad Ali. Finally, after being drafted in 1966, he refused to join the military for religious and conscientious reasons, trigger ...Show more
Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year ...Show more
The Arena - Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport by Rafi Kohan
$11.57 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
In this "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) romp, intrepid sportswriter Rafi Kohan finagles access to our most beloved fields to find out just what makes them tick: from old-timer Wrigley, creakily adjusting to the twenty-first century, to the oversized monstrosity of Jerry's World in Dallas. Investigating ...Show more
The Art of Death - Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Art Of... Ser.
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have app ...Show more
The Book of Emma Reyes - A Memoir by Emma Reyes; Daniel Alarcón (Translator, Introduction by)
$17.15 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
"Startling and astringently poetic." --The New York Times A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombi ...Show more