The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a man of the sixties: a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after his hero, Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him little when he died apart from conflict ...Show more
Hive by Camilo Jose Cela
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
-- The Hive presents a panoramic view of the degradation and sufferings of the lower-middle class in post-civil war Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of starkly rendered interlocking vignettes. Filled with violence, hunger, and compassion, The Hive captures the ...Show more
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic - from the author of 'Wonder Boys'. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's ...Show more
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
"Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the cou ...Show more
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's lonely wa ...Show more
First Life of Adamastor by André Brink
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"THE FIRST LIFE OF ADAMASTOR has it origins in an act of rescue- what, wondered Andre Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first appears in European literature in ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser. | Reading Level: good
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly co ...Show more
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed.