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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe."Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. Wh ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$5.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volu ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, ...Show more
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The year's must read novel' The Times'One of the most important books you'll pick up this decade' Harper's Bazaar'An outstanding book that could be this year's A Little Life' GuardianAt 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use o ...Show more
In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A roller-coaster ride from the master of the Japanese psycho-thriller It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client m ...Show more
American War by Omar El Akkad
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six wh ...Show more
The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg; Deborah Bragan-Turner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Strids ...Show more
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd i ...Show more
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love. Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from ...Show more
Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.' M L STEDMAN, author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS 'This book BLEW ME AWAY' JODI PICOULT 'Rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving' TIMES ___ Our mother was dead. Our father had fled Five Dunbar brothers are ...Show more
