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
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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
The Secret Talker - A Novel by Geling Yan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES "GLOBETROTTING" PICK! THE MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATED A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China's literary superstars. Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, diligent, passive. Glen is the perfect American husband: intellige ...Show more
The Dancers Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community. Liberated for the first time from the restricting reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, findin ...Show more
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.