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
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come... On Ch ...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
An Angel in Australia by Keneally Tom
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sydney, 1942 - the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Australia is surely doomed to fall to the Japanese ...Through the eyes of a naive young priest we see into the hearts of a people who fear the end of life as t ...Show more
Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and their teenage daughter, Mary. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives in ...Show more
Day by A. L. Kennedy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Bef ...Show more