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
10:04 by Ben Lerner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Ben Lerner is a brilliant novelist, and one unafraid to make of the novel something truly new. 10:04 is a work of endless wit, pleasure, relevance, and vitality." --Rachel Kushner, author of The FlamethrowersLeaving the Atocha Station was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels...of his gene ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts They will come for you, man. ...Show more
The Business by Iain Banks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Business is a nearly omnipotent and infinitely discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church, if not the Roman Empire (which the Business actually owned for sixty-six days). Financially transparent, internally democratic, and morally dispassionate, the actual business ...Show more
A Snow Goose & Other Utopian Fictions by Jim Perrin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the first full-length collection of short stories by travel writer and master of mountain literature Jim Perrin. Mystery, romanticism and tragedy abound in these four fictional tales, beginning with the title story, which reimagines the fated Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845 as an eco-f ...Show more
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel by actress and presenter Janet Ellis. A dark and twisted tale set in 18th century London.Georgian London, in the summer of 1763.At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. T ...Show more
October - A Novel by Richard B Wright
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Entwining two stories spanning past and present, cruelty and desire, Richard B. Wright weaves a memorable meditation on life and memory, love and death.
Visit Me in California - Stories by Cooley Windsor
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of mi ...Show more
The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Shahid is a clean-cut student trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid's academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother, Chili, who, with his Armani suits and Gucci lo ...Show more
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H E Bates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"Historical, hypothetical, but marvelously intense: a fascinating short novel by one of Europe's most consistently haunting novelist." - Kirkus Reviews