The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathe ...Show more
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights fi ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s--the country is in ...Show more
The Road Between Us by Nigel Farndale
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for 'conduct unbecoming'; Anselm is deported home to Germany for 're-education' in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must ea ...Show more
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together...Warm, witty and wise, 'All Families Are Psychotic' is Coupland at the very top of his form. In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her ...Show more
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not a ...Show more
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who's at the end of her Goth phase and realising she's facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenishing the Crayola b ...Show more
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to t ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a man of the sixties: a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after his hero, Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him little when he died apart from conflict ...Show more
Hive by Camilo Jose Cela
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
-- The Hive presents a panoramic view of the degradation and sufferings of the lower-middle class in post-civil war Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of starkly rendered interlocking vignettes. Filled with violence, hunger, and compassion, The Hive captures the ...Show more