The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers-on the run after a hit-and-run accident-who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
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Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Bret Easton Ellis delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, one of the most singular novels of the last thirty years. Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L. ...Show more
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his r ...Show more
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air. Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea ...Show more
End as a Man by Calder Willingham; Robie Macualey (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Blackouts - A Novel by Justin Torres
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction A Most Anticipated Read: The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost historie ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream. In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mans ...Show more