An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The author of the international bestsellerA Suitable Boyreturns with a passionate and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. When an English quartet, the Maggiore, undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven's, violinist Michael Holme is overwhelmed by memories of mastering the piece as a student ...Show more
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction
A remarkably poised novel about a young woman; reckoning with her dying alcoholic father, a veteran of the Vietnam war living in Canada with the father of a fallen comrade. Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his mem ...Show more
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Mora ...Show more
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a W ...Show more
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The TimesOn Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake.Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring ...Show more
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
$16.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Unfolding against the ravishing background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilisation, Anil's Ghost is a compelling literary spellbinder. A timeless work of art and revelatory journey. Hardback
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family ...Show more
A Scandalous Woman by Edna O'Brien
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
With dialogue that crackles and an engaging central characyter, Barry Norman brings his unique insight of the movie trade to a world where crime, sexual passion, money and drugs walk hand in hand.
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The compelling new novel from award-winning author Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewellis a profound, moving and important novel about the land, the past, exile, and acceptance. This deeply intelligent and thoughtful novel is a worthy successor to Miller's earlier novel, the much-loved and critically admi ...Show more