Infante's Inferno by G Cabrera Infante

$14.00 NZD

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

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley

$20.00 NZD

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

No's Knife - Collected Shorter Prose 1947-1966 by Samuel Beckett

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

Thomas Mann - Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Soft by Rupert Thomson

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Radiant Future by Aleksander Zinoviev

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

$35.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest" explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. ...Show more

Possession - A Romance by A S Byatt

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined to uncover the truth. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession defies categorization. Rich in symmetry and symbolism, brimming over with myth, poetry and fairy tale, Byatt's masterpiece is part literary detective story, part academic satire and part historical novel. At its heart, however, is a compelling romance that draws the reader into the mirrored worlds of two couples, past and present, and explores the nature of obsession, possession and love. ...Show more

Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme

$55.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ...Show more

The World of Apples by John Cheever

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

$15.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ble for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will shape their futures in ways they cannot imagine. Three decades later, in London, Zahra and Maryam are still best friends despite living very different lives. But when unwelcome ghosts from their shared past re-enter their world, both women find themselves driven to act in ways that will stretch and twist their bond beyond all recognition. Best of Friends is a novel about Britain today, about power and how we use it, and about what we owe to those who've loved us the longest. ...Show more