None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan 'Seriously good' Louise Nealon PICKED AS 'ONE TO WATCH' FOR 2022 BY IRISH TIMES, STYLIST AND IRISH INDEPENDENT Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ...Show more
Bubble Entendre by Mark Waugh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Semina No. 3 | Reading Level: very good
Brazen sadists, high-flying hopheads, invisible strippers and the destiny of objects are just some of the themes tackled by Mark Waugh in Bubble Entendre, a tripartite, literary bender. Dirty, dingy and drug fuelled, Willhelm Reich might have penned this book if he'd been force-fed LSD and subjected to ...Show more
Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A musician, a worker, a big-hearted fool. A woman who has prevailed against the toughest gangsters of the day, defying police time and again, yet is now trapped in a prison cell. Guilty or innocent? Rollicking throu ...Show more
Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, l ...Show more
The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers-on the run after a hit-and-run accident-who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Bret Easton Ellis delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, one of the most singular novels of the last thirty years. Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L. ...Show more
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
This National Book Award-winning novel of power, libido, and morality is "a powerful and profoundly disturbing book" (The New York Times). First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captured the deviant undercurrents of the era's politics and culture. In t ...Show more
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his r ...Show more
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air. Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea ...Show more