My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Humorous, allegorical novel centred on the life of Tristan Smith. Set in the mythical nations of Voorstand and Efica, it follows the adventures of Tristan, who is doomed never to be taller than three foot six. Includes maps, footnotes and glossary. Author's other novels include 'Bliss', 'Illywacker', an ...Show more
Stars and Bars by William Boyd
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists. A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserv ...Show more
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of ...Show more
The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Presents a great American wager: shameless, touting and defiant, it offers us its God-defying originality.
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2011. This historical adventure from the author of Scapegallowswas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2011. 1857. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London's East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. He is plucked from the jaws of ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$8.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her worl ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...Show more