Horse Heaven by Smiley, Jane
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris,Horse Heavenputs us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity and his opposite: a wicked prince of the tract, ...Show more
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Love me, love my game', says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good -very good
It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hardÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂliving snooker player. Using a parallel universe str ...Show more
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 'reeducated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoen ...Show more
Once On A Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Beguiling and ambitious, this new novel by the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, is ostensibly a search for an ancient text, and a love story. But beneath that is a haunting tale about language and identity, about the shifting layers of history under the confusing surface of Chinese li ...Show more
Helium by Jaspreet Singh
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets hi ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary ...Show more
All True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie by Jane Smiley (Retold by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. Lidie Newton is an extraordinary female protagonist, a genuine Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isabel Archer. Lidie and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's hea ...Show more
Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER. A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where se ...Show more
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabi