A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A first novel about Moses Highness, brought up in an English village that nobody had ever left. Moses moves to London and begins to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past, of his mother who ate raw yeast to rise out of her misery and his father who stayed in bed for 15 years.
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
{rtf1ansiansicpg1252deff0{fonttbl{f0fnilfcharset0 Arial;}} viewkind4uc1pardlang2057ifs20 The Shadow Catcheri0fs18 is a journey through time, a story-within-a-story that seamlessly interweaves the nineteenth-century life of renowned photographer of the Native American peoples Edward S. Curtis with the p ...Show more
Orlando - A Biography - Second Impression by Virginia Woolf
$125.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
Problems and Other Stories by John Updike
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The multi-award-winning writer offers a fascinating collection of short stories with such diverse characters as the forgetful consort of a former king, an East German border guard made redundant once the Berlin Wall comes down, and a baby who grows wings.
An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: Charles Gordo ...Show more
I'm Dying Laughing by Christina Stead
$16.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal.Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast pano ...Show more
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The author of the international bestsellerA Suitable Boyreturns with a passionate and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. When an English quartet, the Maggiore, undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven's, violinist Michael Holme is overwhelmed by memories of mastering the piece as a student ...Show more
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction
A remarkably poised novel about a young woman; reckoning with her dying alcoholic father, a veteran of the Vietnam war living in Canada with the father of a fallen comrade. Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his mem ...Show more