Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$5.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Short-listed for the 2010 man Booker Prize. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
""I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...reco ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2004. The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giova ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...Show more
Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O'Connor. Co ...Show more
C by Tom McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds hi ...Show more
Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Berni res that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to ...Show more
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
The fortieth anniversary edition of Ian McEwan's first book, now with an introduction from the author Forty years on from first publication, these stories display McEwan's dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, they are stories of sex and loneliness, adolescence and incest, love ...Show more
Moomin - The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book Five by Tove Jansson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Moomin Comic Strip
The final volume in the series drawn by Tove Jansson "Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip "features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the "London Evening News," before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first "Moomin Winter" retu ...Show more