Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen Dewitt
$48.00 NZD
Category: Debut Short Story Collection
At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be ...Show more
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail; Max Weiss
$0.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed ...Show more
The Beginning of Everything - The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself by Andrea J. Buchanan
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Longlisted for the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA real-life neurological mystery and captivating story of reinvention by the New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls.Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one blustery March morning. The cold winter ...Show more
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
$0.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe - Publishers Weekly - Ki ...Show more
The Carrying by Ada Limón
$44.00 NZD
Category: Book Award
In the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood." The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world. Bo ...Show more
The Circuit by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet--and Paris Review sports columnist--Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual ...Show more
The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle faces a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. One balmy summer afternoon, she finds him hanging in the barn ― the start of a dark secret that threatens her family ...Show more
The Heritage: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of the Black Political Athlete by Howard Bryant
$0.00 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world's worst pro ...Show more
The Overstory (US HB) by Richard Powers
$7.16 NZD
Category: Book Award
** LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ** 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' - Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of ...Show more
The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani; Emma Ramadan (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation
The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections--"The Shutters" and "Photograms"--by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani reconstructs vivid images of Morocco's past. He weaves ...Show more
The Stone Building and Other Places by Asli Erdogan; Sevinç Türkkan (Translator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Translation
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Translation Award The New York Times calls Turkish writer Asli Erdogan one of the "11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017""Aslı Erdoğan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan Pamuk"One volume of short ...Show more