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
How to Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"To their neighbours in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all- a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters and a sense of security in their affluent corner of America.But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed. Fifteen years later, Carol ...Show more
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep - Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain's magical sequel to Restoration. Robert Merivel, courtier to Charles II is no longer a young man -- but off he goes to France in search of the Sun King and to Switzerland in pursuit of a handsome woman. Versailles -- all glitt ...Show more
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that li ...Show more
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies ...Show more
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1914, an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups - Turkish, German, English and American - are vying for control ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a disgraced Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himse ...Show more
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth, and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.'The vast invasion fleet lies impotent, rocking on the waters in the straits of Aulis. Great Agamemnon's army grow uneasy at the delay and int ...Show more
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the cro ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hartlepool Hall has been in Ed's family for generations - but is that about to change, and who is the mysterious Lady Alice? From the bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen comes a story of inheritance, a great country house, and a way of life that is disappearing... Ed Hartlepool has ...Show more