Disgrace by J M Coetzee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's lonely wa ...Show more
First Life of Adamastor by André Brink
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"THE FIRST LIFE OF ADAMASTOR has it origins in an act of rescue- what, wondered Andre Brink, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor, the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks of the Peninsula, first appears in European literature in ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser. | Reading Level: good
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly co ...Show more
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed.
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death ...Show more
Floating Opera / The End of the Road by John Barth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructi ...Show more
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Latin American Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre ...Show more
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping hou ...Show more
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from wh ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a country rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a rising groundswell of violence, they are to jo ...Show more