Close Range : Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Breezes by Joseph O'Neill
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of 'Netherland'. Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning - it should have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but, as John Breeze is about to find out, this couldn't be further from the truth. ...Show more
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves ...Show more
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape, by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren cal ...Show more
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine ...Show more
My Sister, My Love: the Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, nei ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy s ...Show more
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs...' A tiger es ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, ...Show more
Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds--one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure--are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm, a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, b ...Show more
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 Clarisse Riviere's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper. Instead, weighed down by guilt, she pretends to be an orphan, visiting her mother in secret and ...Show more
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1916, pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby genteel South London boarding house while her gentle, dreamy husband is off at the War. Her 14 year old son Ralph dotes on his mother, but has adolescent thoughts he