Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; Tina Kover (Translator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Translation
WINNER: Le Prix du Roman News, Style Prize, Lire Best Debut Novel 2016, la Porte Dor e Prize Kimi Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new gene ...Show more
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
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Category: Book Award
'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage a a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' Sunday TimesTara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent he ...Show more
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
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Category: Open Book Award
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I've been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Art of the Essay
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate ...Show more
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
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Category: Debut Fiction
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" HonoreeShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize One of the most anticipated and best reviewed novels of 2018, Freshwater is the remarkable debut of an astonishing young writer. Ada has always been unusual. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she ...Show more
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Category: Book Award
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, chosen by Colson Whitehead "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." -- ...Show more
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
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Category: Debut Short Story Collection
A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in ...Show more
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
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Category: Open Book Award
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thom ...Show more
How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese Coleman
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Category: Open Book Award
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incomparable” by Junot Díaz, and “incendiary” by the ...Show more
Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
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Category: Art of the Essay
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brookl ...Show more