VOLUME FLYERS (7.7.26)

Catch these five books!

Let this week’s flyers land on the top of your reading pile.

TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (Translated by Lin King) $38
”With sumptuous food writing, laugh-out-loud dialogue and metafictional twists, this novel was impossible to put down. Taiwan Travelogue pulls off an incredible double act: it succeeds as both a delicious romance and an incisive postcolonial novel.” —judges’ citation on awarding the book the 2026 International Booker

NIGHT, MA: A memoir by Elizabeth Knox $40
'Absolutely brilliant. This radiant, radically honest memoir pulls the pin on a sequence of domestic grenades, from the perils of semi-feral childhood to a cruelly compacted series of family crises that, like shock waves, sweep all before. Armed with inimitable wit, the consolation of cats and a forensic gaze that spares no one, least of all herself, Knox interrogates the act of caring; the ties that burn and bind, that we somehow survive.' —Diana Wichtel

THE VALLEY: Crime and punichment in a New Zealand city by Asher Emanuel $40
‘This is a once-in-a-generation contribution to New Zealand writing about justice, class and wider society. The Valley combines meticulous reporting and deep thinking on the daily grind of the justice system. The result is a monumental book of stories that will stay with you long after you put it down.’ —Max Harris 

LAND by Maggie O’Farrell $38
Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonisation and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. From the author of Hamnet.

LIGHT AND THREAD by Han Kang $35
Kang recalls a poem she wrote at eight years old in which she imagined a ‘gold thread’ of connection: language. Here she uses that thread to tie together essays and poems, her life and her work, beginning with her Nobel lecture in which she discusses her writing process and the myriad questions that drive her work.