James by Percival Everett
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$5.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Short-listed for the 2010 man Booker Prize. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
""I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...reco ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2004. The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'Exquisite... a feat of fire-breathing, imaginative daring' Guardian Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giova ...Show more
Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O'Connor. Co ...Show more
C by Tom McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds hi ...Show more
Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Berni res that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to ...Show more
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
The fortieth anniversary edition of Ian McEwan's first book, now with an introduction from the author Forty years on from first publication, these stories display McEwan's dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, they are stories of sex and loneliness, adolescence and incest, love ...Show more
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he explores the import ...Show more