Utz by Bruce Chatwin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | 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
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A humane, moral and uncompromising new novel from J.M. Coetzee, twice winner of the Booker Prize and one of the finest authors writing in the English language. Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers i ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
: I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my 8-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once b ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of bot ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered."--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may ...Show more
Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Glister by John Burnside
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The children of Homeland exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply run ...Show more
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In BABEL TOWER a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN and STILL LIFE) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo fr ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more