Prochownik's Dream by Alex Miller
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alex Miller's latest novel Prochownik's Dream is about an artist who hasn't been able to paint or draw for years, not since the death of his father. When he suddenly finds the inspiration to work again, it creates all sorts of tensions in his life, as he alienates his wife and neglects his child. Procho ...Show more
Travelling With Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The breakout novel from a brilliant British-Sudanese novelist writing cleverly, wittily and movingly about being an outsider inside Europe. Yasin is driving through Europe in a dilapidated Peugeot 504 with his seven-year-old son Leo. He's not sure where they're going. He just knows he's thirty-seven yea ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old B ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier. First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortunewas hailed as an extraordinary novel by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Lawrence of Arabia and ...Show more
Author, Author: A Novel by David Lodge
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
A captivating new historical novel from one of our most successful popular literary novelists.In David Lodge's last novel, Thinks... the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, wit ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choos ...Show more
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-winning author Roger McDonald follows the story of Kingsley Colts as he chases the ghost of himself through the decades, and in and out of the lives and affections of the citizens of 'The Isabel', a slice of Australia scatte ...Show more
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The Glorious Heresies | Reading Level: very good
**NEW** 'He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was cracked and his hair matted, but it had been foxy before that. A tall man, a skinny rake, another string of piss, now departed. She hadn't gotten a look at his f ...Show more
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
"In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan- red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identify, its own history ...Show more
Great House by Nicole Krauss
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
For twenty-five years, a solitary American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in th ...Show more
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the tu ...Show more
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.