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An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of th ...Show more
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is a ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This novel is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, class and England, at its centre is a profound and profoundly moving exploration of shame and forgiveness.
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures | Reading Level: good
Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the ...Show more
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three ma ...Show more
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois; Jean Ziegler
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage Lives | Reading Level: good
Baudelaire was always the subject of myth, anecdote and scandal. In his short life, a rebel, political agitator, dandy, post-Romantic debauchee and priestlike visionary, he was also plagued by disease, poverty and censorship. Yet he remains one of the most innovative figures in poetic history.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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Brothers Grimm - The Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
By the Lake by John McGahern
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glit ...Show more