Guardian of Dawn by Richard Zimler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the time the 16th century was drawing to a close in the Portuguese colony of Goa, the Inquisition was making admirable progress in its mission to convert all 'sorcerers' - whether native Hindus or immigrant Jews - to Christianity. A progress helped, no doubt, by the availability of alternatives: thos ...Show more
Beyond the Glass by Antonia White; Carmen Callil (Introduction by)
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world ...Show more
Frost in May by Antonia White
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
At the age of nine a girl enters a convent boarding school, dedicated to the creation of soldiers of Christ, accustomed to hardship and ridicule. In this enclosed world, forbidden but passionate friendships provide the only deviation from a regime that almost stifles her young soul.
Caracole by Edmund White
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembl ...Show more
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SHADOW CATCHER dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a twenty-first-century journey of ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy ...Show more
Spoils by Brian van Reet
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Guardian Book of the YearWinner of The Writers' League of Texas Fiction Award 2017'Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut. I read this with awe.' Kate AtkinsonIt is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the gr ...Show more
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poign ...Show more
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each morning. No one quite knows where she came from ...Show more
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Peter Hansome's death in a car crash, his mind on neither his wife, nor his mistress, precipitates all sorts of relationships between those he leaves behind. Not that Peter has entirely left. Some sort of spirit, whom Bridget recognizes as Peter, has something he needs to do. First published 2001; this ...Show more
Mr.Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Beautifully rejacked edition of this wonderful novel from the best-selling author of âe~Miss Garnet's Angelâe(tm) and âe~Instances of the Number 3âe(tm). Many years ago Mr Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction which grew to be an international best-seller. But his reputation is on the decline and ...Show more
Mesmerized by Alissa Walser
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical patients, Franz Anton Mesmer is developing a series of controversial cure-alls for body and mind. Wh ...Show more