Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Bret Easton Ellis delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, one of the most singular novels of the last thirty years. Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L. ...Show more
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
This National Book Award-winning novel of power, libido, and morality is "a powerful and profoundly disturbing book" (The New York Times). First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captured the deviant undercurrents of the era's politics and culture. In t ...Show more
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his r ...Show more
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air. Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea ...Show more
End as a Man by Calder Willingham; Robie Macualey (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the "Best 100 English-language novels" by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage and Mat ...Show more
Blackouts - A Novel by Justin Torres
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction A Most Anticipated Read: The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost historie ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream. In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mans ...Show more
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.-Jonathan Lethem A film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head arrives on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969. Vikar Jerome enters the vortex of a cultural transformation: ...Show more