The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Humorous, allegorical novel centred on the life of Tristan Smith. Set in the mythical nations of Voorstand and Efica, it follows the adventures of Tristan, who is doomed never to be taller than three foot six. Includes maps, footnotes and glossary. Author's other novels include 'Bliss', 'Illywacker', an ...Show more
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm. But his visit coincides with a time of crisis in his personal life. In a few days, the security of a lifetime is destroyed and, with only the uncertain values of his past to guide him, Mynhardt is left to face the wreckage of ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
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The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, The Grandmothers, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and th ...Show more
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were ...Show more
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inman turns his back on the Civil War to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he loves. As Ada struggles to make a living, Inman travels through the war-torn landscape of the Confederate states in his voyage home, encompassing all the tragedy and waste of war.
The Extra by A. B. Yehoshua
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An experiment is under way in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a woman, recently widowed, is starting a trial period in assisted living, mainly to placate her over-anxious son, whilst in Jerusalem her daughter Noga, a young harpist, returns from her job with a Dutch orchestra to look after the family apartment. ...Show more
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (TheWashington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (TheNew York Times Book Review) and "a know ...Show more
The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption from the world-renowned Nobel Laureate. From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidenc ...Show more
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for which his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an amb ...Show more