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
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the early 19th century. Blood, a man with a secret past that has scorched his soul, sets forth to establish himself as a trader, accompanied by Sally. Their arrival at the Indian Stream triggers a series of clashes of increasing violence, and Blood is finally forced to confront his ghosts.