What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel ...Show more
Persepolis - The Story of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
$14.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Pantheon Graphic Library | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine "Best Comix of the Year" A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic str ...Show more
Kiwi of the Great Forest by Dave Gunson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Deep in the forest disaster strikes and a family of kiwi must begin an epic journey to find a new home in the âÃÂÂÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÂÂgreat forestâÃÂÂÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÂÂ, known only through legend. Along the way they meet both friends and foes and encounter real danger before reaching their final destinati ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist tale in an historical setting that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire ...Show more
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The Border Trilogy | Reading Level: near fine
In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.  The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the prov ...Show more
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The Border Trilogy | Reading Level: near fine
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Cousins by Aurora Venturini
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English. In 2007, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins, won a newspaper's award for a first novel. She had already written more than thi ...Show more
Devil House by John Darnielle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From New York Timesbestselling author and Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle, an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Chandler is a true crime writer, wit ...Show more
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sole Survivor brings Maurice Gee's richly entertaining family chronicle up to the present day. The career of Duggie Plum (as ruthless in politics as in sex) is relayed to us with cool, outrageous irony by his journalist cousin, Raymond Sole. Raymond - known to his family as Ramong and to his enemies as ...Show more