The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption from the world-renowned Nobel Laureate. From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidenc ...Show more
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for which his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an amb ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
It is the summer of 1921 and eight-year-old Lucy Gault stays close to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the much-loved house that her family is being forced to abandon. She knows that danger threatens and the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that some ...Show more
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty? Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children?s books, turns his back momentarily. When ...Show more
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Both a poignant love story and a period portrait of America, this is the story of a solitary woman in great turmoil. As the Eisenhower years end and 1960 ushers in John F. Kennedy. Mary van der Linden confronts the terror of the Cold War - a dark background to her carefree existence in Washington. (Prec ...Show more
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Lilian Singer, born into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence.
Close Sesame by nuriddin farah
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India?s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight?s children? all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinkin ...Show more
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protegees. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for want ...Show more