His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts They will come for you, man. ...Show more
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Consisting of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, The Alexandria Quartet explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and after the Second World War. In Justine, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the recent end of his affair with the dark, passio ...Show more
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk. Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, wh ...Show more
The Business by Iain Banks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Business is a nearly omnipotent and infinitely discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church, if not the Roman Empire (which the Business actually owned for sixty-six days). Financially transparent, internally democratic, and morally dispassionate, the actual business ...Show more
The Nix by Nathan Hill
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifi ...Show more
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me. The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover tha ...Show more
Waiting by Ha Jin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, is in love with an educated, modern woman, Mannu Wu. But, his family chose a wife for him when he was young. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision, this work conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must con ...Show more
Black Spring by Henry Miller
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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A Snow Goose & Other Utopian Fictions by Jim Perrin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the first full-length collection of short stories by travel writer and master of mountain literature Jim Perrin. Mystery, romanticism and tragedy abound in these four fictional tales, beginning with the title story, which reimagines the fated Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845 as an eco-f ...Show more
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel by actress and presenter Janet Ellis. A dark and twisted tale set in 18th century London.Georgian London, in the summer of 1763.At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. T ...Show more
October - A Novel by Richard B Wright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Entwining two stories spanning past and present, cruelty and desire, Richard B. Wright weaves a memorable meditation on life and memory, love and death.