Folk by Zoe Gilbert

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine

A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story AwardThe remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time and place. The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse and the salty bite of the sea. Harsh winds sco ur the rocky coastline. The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature and its enchantments. Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm, unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull and dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms, haunted by horses and her father's wishes. As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation, their earthy desires, resentments, idle gossip and painful losses create a staggeringly original world. Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore, but entirely, wonderfully, her own, Zoe Gilbert's Folk is a dark, beautiful and intoxicating debut. ...Show more

Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Citizen of the World or letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East by Oliver Goldsmith

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Odyssey A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazanzakis

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Ulysses by James Joyce

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction

Reprint of the first unlimited edition

A Day After the Fair: A Collection of Plays and Short Stories by James Purdy

$45.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

Four in Hand - A Quartet of Novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Shame by Salman Rushdie

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at th eir six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers' fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men - one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure - living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal. 'Shame is every bit as good as Midnight's Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives' The Times ...Show more

The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Denis Johnson's "The Laughing Monsters "is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancee, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland--but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness. ...Show more

The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley

$16.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Now an important title in the newly redesigned PerennialCanada series, Timothy Findley's The Piano Man's Daughter continues to be one of his most popular books ever. The novel's reissue follows on the heels of Findley's newest novel, Pilgrim, released in late 1999 and sure to attract even more new reade rs to the Findley fold.A glorious reverberation of a time when change was reaching a crescendo and yet hope and renewal were always to be found, The Piano Man's Daughter is the story of Lily Kilworth and her son Charlie, a young piano tuner, who must find answers to the questions that define his life. Who was his father? And, given the swirl of madness enveloping his mother, does he dare become a father himself?Set at the turn of the century and inspired by the history of Findley's own mother's family, this is a remarkable novel that sings with love and loss, a wonderful burst of reading pleasure. ...Show more