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House of Leaves - The remastered full-colour edition by Mark Z. Danielewski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A blind old man, a young apprentice working in a tattoo shop, and a mad woman haunting an Ohio institute narrate this story of a family that encounters an endlessly shifting series of hallways in their new home, eventually coming face to face with the awful darkness lying at its heart.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man - A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Books That Shook the World | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable righ ...Show more
The Prodigy by Herman Hesse
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Public Image by Muriel Spark
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Actress Annabel Christopher's glamorous public image must be maintained at all costs for the paparazzi and her adoring fans. But all is not wellbeneath the carefully constructed facade of her marriage and husband Frederick is sick of it. He decides to take his revenge . . . A sharp lookat celebrity cult ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of st ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers s best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formi ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The literary phenomenon of the year.
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester's clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope's most popular novel. This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of B ...Show more
Sovereign by C J Sansom
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This work is set in autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine H ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the ea ...Show more