To the End of the Land by David Grossman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece about an Israeli mother and son and the costs of war, and a profound contribution to the literature of modern life. Ora is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from Israeli army service when he voluntarily rejoins his unit for a major offensive. In a fit of magical thinking, she takes ...Show more
Ape House by Sara Gruen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An absorbing, heart-warming and ultimately uplifting story of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen, author of the international bestseller Water for Elephants.Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others ...Show more
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threa ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Perman ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehu ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathe ...Show more
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights fi ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s--the country is in ...Show more
The Road Between Us by Nigel Farndale
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for 'conduct unbecoming'; Anselm is deported home to Germany for 're-education' in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must ea ...Show more
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together...Warm, witty and wise, 'All Families Are Psychotic' is Coupland at the very top of his form. In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her ...Show more
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not a ...Show more