The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Humorous, allegorical novel centred on the life of Tristan Smith. Set in the mythical nations of Voorstand and Efica, it follows the adventures of Tristan, who is doomed never to be taller than three foot six. Includes maps, footnotes and glossary. Author's other novels include 'Bliss', 'Illywacker', an ...Show more
Stars and Bars by William Boyd
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists. A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserv ...Show more
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of ...Show more
The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Presents a great American wager: shameless, touting and defiant, it offers us its God-defying originality.
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2011. This historical adventure from the author of Scapegallowswas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2011. 1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. He is plucked from the jaws of ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$8.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her worl ...Show more
The Reserve by Russell Banks
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is July, 1936, and it is the height of the Depression, and the looming threat of Fascism is spreading across Europe. And somewhere high above the Adirondack mountains, beautiful and doomed, floats the vast Hindenburg airship. Vanessa Cole is the stunning debutante daughter of the famous brain surgeon ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
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Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Solomon Kugel wishes for nothing more than to be nowhere, to be in a place with no past, no history, no wars, no genocides. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any import has ever happened, which is exactly why Kugel decided t ...Show more
A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the Mc ...Show more