The Nuclear Age by Tim O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Nuclear Age is about one man's slightly insane attempt to come to terms with a dilemma that confronts us all--a little thing called The Bomb. The year is 1995, and William Cowling has finally found the courage to meet his fears head-on. Cowling's courage takes the form of a hole that he begins diggi ...Show more
Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories by Edna O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantanker ...Show more
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The compelling new novel from award-winning author Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewellis a profound, moving and important novel about the land, the past, exile, and acceptance. This deeply intelligent and thoughtful novel is a worthy successor to Miller's earlier novel, the much-loved and critically admi ...Show more
The Stand-In by Deborah Moggach
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jules is a little-known English actress with a precarious career and a wayward but irresistible boyfriend. But then she gets the break of a lifetime - a part as stand-in for Lila Dune, American film star and sex-symbol - and her world is transformed.
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of sexual betrayal and human failings in 17th-century Amsterdam, as the characters move inexorably towards a grand deception and a tragic climax.
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western int ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage o ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hangin ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explo ...Show more
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attemp ...Show more