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
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...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
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and affecting novel based on the tragic life of a hero of American entertainment. 'Bert Williams is the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' - W. C. Fields Born in the Bahamas in 1874 and brought up there and in Los Angeles Bert Williams was disappointed early in life w ...Show more