The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western int ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage o ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hangin ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explo ...Show more
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attemp ...Show more
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Norman Mailer's dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era- the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepat ...Show more
Indecent Dreams by Arnost Lustig; Josef Skvorecky (Afterword by); Iris Urwin-Levit (Translator); Vera Borkovec (Translator); Paul Wilson (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social o ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn't the first time, and it wasn't the last. In fact, Rose - like all American Communists - got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesn't take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorizing the neighb ...Show more
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when al ...Show more
The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
$4.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a new England boarding school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, privileged white son of the Mississippi Delta, has embraced black soul music and adopted its raw, searing anthems as his own. Spanning three decades from t ...Show more
The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the ...Show more