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
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies and for all there is to discover about the world, Francois was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dre ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a place and time with little tolerance for physical flaws, a photographer with a withered arm secures a chance to serve his country? As the war ends, a girl and her siblings flee to safety with a concentration camp survivor whose false papers claim he is Jewish? Half a century later a schoolteacher b ...Show more
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Opening and closing with a wedding, this novel is ostensibly the story of a Hindu family trying to find a suitable husband for their younger daughter, Lata. Who will the suitable boy turn out to be? The dashing Kabir, with whom Lata falls in love? The ambitious businessman whom Lata's mother favors? Or ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story o ...Show more
Sarah's Key: From Paris to Auschwitz, one girl's journey to find her brother by Tatiana De Rosnay
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Released in 2010 as a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promise ...Show more