The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage; Michael Mikolowski (Illustrator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The tragicomic tale of a frustrated writer angry at the world: "Scathingly funny." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-ti ...Show more
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Two children: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance. Two women: Lola, their mother, and Nonie, their aunt, who for mysterious reasons is the one to raise them. Lark and Termite imaginatively enters the hearts and thoughts of a family, from their home in 1950 ...Show more
Vernon God Little : A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death by D.B.C Pierre
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat. Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize ...Show more
The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by a ...Show more
Down the Hume by Peter Polites
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He touched my face. When his hand went along my bruised top lip and my almost broken nose, I winced from the pain. His fist went into a deep denim pocket. Pulled out a Syrinapx bottle, twisted the cap off and handed me two light blue pills.' How did Bucky get here? A series of accidents. A tragic love ...Show more
Close Range : Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Breezes by Joseph O'Neill
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of 'Netherland'. Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning - it should have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but, as John Breeze is about to find out, this couldn't be further from the truth. ...Show more
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves ...Show more
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape, by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren cal ...Show more
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine ...Show more
My Sister, My Love: the Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, nei ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy s ...Show more