Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinkin ...Show more
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protegees. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for want ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, ...Show more
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promi ...Show more
Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following his expulsion from school, seventeen-year-old dreamer Ellis Dau is sent to work with his father. His father is editor of The Chronicle, the last bastion of free speech in their strange, strange land. And it is under threat: from heavy-handed policemen, mysterious revolutionaries, and the resid ...Show more
The Angelic Darkness by Richard Zimler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Bill Ticino's fruitless and numbing marriage finally breaks up. Plagued by insomnia and spiritually lost, Bill finds a loger as the solution to his problems; a handsome, charismatic Portuguese man named Peter. Bill finds himself drawn into a world of kabbalistic storytelling, charms and ritual. Peter ig ...Show more
Guardian of Dawn by Richard Zimler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the time the 16th century was drawing to a close in the Portuguese colony of Goa, the Inquisition was making admirable progress in its mission to convert all 'sorcerers' - whether native Hindus or immigrant Jews - to Christianity. A progress helped, no doubt, by the availability of alternatives: thos ...Show more
Beyond the Glass by Antonia White; Carmen Callil (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world ...Show more
Frost in May by Antonia White
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
At the age of nine a girl enters a convent boarding school, dedicated to the creation of soldiers of Christ, accustomed to hardship and ridicule. In this enclosed world, forbidden but passionate friendships provide the only deviation from a regime that almost stifles her young soul.
Caracole by Edmund White
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembl ...Show more