Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
$16.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Unfolding against the ravishing background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilisation, Anil's Ghost is a compelling literary spellbinder. A timeless work of art and revelatory journey. Hardback
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family ...Show more
A Scandalous Woman by Edna O'Brien
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
With dialogue that crackles and an engaging central characyter, Barry Norman brings his unique insight of the movie trade to a world where crime, sexual passion, money and drugs walk hand in hand.
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The compelling new novel from award-winning author Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewellis a profound, moving and important novel about the land, the past, exile, and acceptance. This deeply intelligent and thoughtful novel is a worthy successor to Miller's earlier novel, the much-loved and critically admi ...Show more
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western int ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage o ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hangin ...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
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 Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
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.