Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Arcadia by Jim Crace
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and ch ...Show more
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has start ...Show more
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the cou ...Show more
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A humane, moral and uncompromising new novel from J.M. Coetzee, twice winner of the Booker Prize and one of the finest authors writing in the English language. Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers i ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
: I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my 8-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once b ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of bot ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered."--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may ...Show more
Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Glister by John Burnside
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
The children of Homeland exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply run ...Show more
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In BABEL TOWER a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN and STILL LIFE) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo fr ...Show more