The Essential James Joyce by James Joyce

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Razor's Edge

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

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald

$8.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Set in Russia 1913, Frank Reid arrives home from work on a day just like any other to find that his wife has left him. How should he cope? This text is the story of how the family copes with this unexpected event, set against a turbulent political backdrop. Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegan t and distinctive voices in British fiction. She was the author of nine novels, three of which - The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels - were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. And she won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her most recent novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the `Book of the Year`. It won America`s National Book Critics` Circle Award, and this helped introduce her to a wider international readership. A superb biographer and critic, Penelope Fitzgerald was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (her first book), the poet Charlotte Mew and The Knox Brothers - a study of her remarkable father Edmund Knox, editor of Punch, and his equally remarkable brothers. Penelope Fitzgerald did not embark on her literary career until the age of sixty. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, she worked at the BBC during the war, edited a literary journal, ran a bookshop and taught at various schools, including a theatrical school; her early novels drew upon many of these experiences. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three. ++ Shortlisted, Booker Prize ++ Paperback (B-Format) ...Show more

Birdy by William Wharton

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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good

The Stand-in by Deborah Moggach

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Category: Literary 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.

A Quiet Drink by Deborah Moggach

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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Graham Greene - Collected Short Stories by Graham Greene

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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Sleep It Off Lady - Stories by Jean Rhys

$8.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett

$7.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser. | Reading Level: good

With his wife's death, Ninian Middleton turned to his eldest daughter, Lavinia, as a companion. When, some years later, he decides to marry again, a chasm opens in the life of the young girl whose time he has so jealously possessed. Convoluted attempts are made to prevent this marriage - and others - an d the seams of intense family relationships are torn, with bitter consequences. Astringent, succinct and always subversive, Ivy Compton-Burnett wields her scalpel-like pen to vehemently dissect the passions and duplicity of the Middleton family. ...Show more

Driving in the Dark by Deborah Moggach

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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good

A funny and moving novel about a man at the crossroads of his life, from the widely-celebrated, bestselling author of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Desmond never did have much luck with women - except in getting them through their driving tests. Now a coach driver, he is at the most crucial crossroads of his life. His wife has thrown him out. The crisis serves only to deepen his despair over another failed liaison - until he elects to steer his coach on a spectacularly reckless quest for the son he has never seen. 'Acutely funny and sad' Daily Mail ...Show more

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Popular Penguin) by George Orwell

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good

A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected.   Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live up to his ideals, he quits his lucrative position as an advertising copywriter and devotes himself to poetry and other high-minded pursuits.   But low-paid part-time employment and a constant shortage of cash is not exactly conducive to creativity and happiness. The stress even causes him to lash out at his devoted girlfriend, Rosemary, who he suspects of preferring a richer man. This sharply witty novel about the difficulties of idealism and the effects of financial strain is yet another outstanding read from the genius who brought us Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, and other enduring works. ...Show more