Snakes' Nest by Lêdo Ivo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Snakes' Nest explores the nature of good an evil in provincial part of northeast Brazil during World War II.
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple- he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all . . . But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, ...Show more
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others, he questions, as Auden wrote, 'What aut ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
Single to Paris by Alexander Fullerton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
SOE agent Rosie Ewing, who has recently escaped from being deported to a death camp, is being flown home. However, as she returns, two SOE agents are arrested and held in Paris by the Gestapo- or someone worse. As Rosie knows these agents, she is sent back to try and rescue them. She starts with trackin ...Show more
Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
The Last Days of Publishing - A Novel by Tom Engelhardt
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pompeii never had it so bad. Rick Koppes knows a world is ending. The only question is, will he end with it? An editor at Byzantium Press for the last quarter century, he has watched his small, classy publishing house get gobbled up, first by an American publishing giant and then by Multimedia Entertain ...Show more
The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1963 at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North Carolina town. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black frie ...Show more
Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A biographical novel in the grand European literary tradition that spans multiple generations and three centuries of tumultuous Central European history, as witnessed by the Esterhazys, a leading Hungarian family. The Esterhazys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are indelibly inscri ...Show more
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up ...Show more
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The\Last Roundup Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry marks a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has previously written. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love story, this n ...Show more