Bullet Park by John Cheever

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective--to murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb--and to all the dubious normalcy it represents--delivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance. ...Show more

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P G Wodehouse

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

These short stories feature a cast of characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty or ignominy - with various degrees of success. The nine stories include: 'All's Well with Bingo', 'Bingo and the Peke Crisis, 'The Editor Regrets', 'Sonny Boy', 'A Bit of Luck for Mabel', and others. ...Show more

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Written on the bodyis a secret code only visible in certain lights- the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book. ...Show more

Ignorance - A Novel by Milan Kundera; Linda Asher (Translator)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

A New York Times Notable BookIrena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is tha t after such a long absence their memories no longer match.--Boston Globe ...Show more

You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn't right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren't where he remembers them--and finds in his notebook words that are not his own. ...Show more

The Father Brown Stories by G K Chesterton

$30.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

King Jesus by Robert Graves

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

From the bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romant ic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. The basis for the major motion picture starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, and Kate Bosworth. ...Show more

Fernhurst, Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings by Gertrude Stein

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

"A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein." -Christian Science Monitor

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Shortl isted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm T ib n explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds. ...Show more

Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, "The Lost Language of Cranes "tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problem s: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to the family is Philip's father's own struggle with his suppressed homosexuality, realized only in Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's revelation to his parents leads his father to a point of crisis and provokes changes that forever alter the landscape of the family's lives. ...Show more