The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A modern TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.
A Little Tea, A Little Chat by Christina Stead
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the 'blondine', a woman he cannot b ...Show more
This Quiet Dust by William Styron
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
Part of the non-fiction titles which addresses great moral issues.
A Stone Boat by Andrew Solomon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Andrew Solomon tells an exquisitely perceptive story of family, identity, and the changes wrought by grief and loss. Harry, an internationally celebrated concert pianist, arrives in Paris to confront his glamorous mother about his homosexuality. Instead, he discovers that she is terminally ill. In an at ...Show more
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A vivid and passionate love story from the Booker Shortlisted author. The Map of Love is the story of two stories: two stories separated by a hundred years of history, two stories intricately intertwined. There is the story of Lady Anna Winterbourne who, recently widowed, travels to the Middle East in 1 ...Show more
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...Show more
Set This House on Fire by William Styron
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between tw ...Show more
Ever After by Graham Swift
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him - childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and, the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of ...Show more
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together and cruelly separated by a momentous act that has cut deeply into both their lives. Tea ...Show more
Horse Heaven by Smiley, Jane
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris,Horse Heavenputs us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity and his opposite: a wicked prince of the tract, ...Show more
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Love me, love my game', says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good -very good
It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hardÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂliving snooker player. Using a parallel universe str ...Show more