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
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
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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
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the cou ...Show more
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers i ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Humorous, allegorical novel centred on the life of Tristan Smith. Set in the mythical nations of Voorstand and Efica, it follows the adventures of Tristan, who is doomed never to be taller than three foot six. Includes maps, footnotes and glossary. Author's other novels include 'Bliss', 'Illywacker', an ...Show more
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
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The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, The Grandmothers, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and th ...Show more
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were ...Show more