What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more
The Longman Literary Companion to Science by Walter Gratzer (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel ...Show more
Persepolis - The Story of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
$14.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Pantheon Graphic Library | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine "Best Comix of the Year" A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic str ...Show more
Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Peter Bland
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
An evocative and intriguing memoir following Peter's boyhood in the UK, experiencing the war years, living with the 'total stranger' who was his father and enduring the premature loss of both parents. It takes him to near destitution before he immigrated to New Zealand, a place that struck him with its ...Show more
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
The Ring Legends of Tolkien by David Day
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: near fine
Tolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature.Tracing centuries of ancient folklore, The Ring Legends of Tolkien is a deep and highly informed investigation into the inspiration behind Tolkien's epic fantasy wo ...Show more
Roger Was a Razor Fish and Other Poems by Jill Bennett (Compiled by)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kiwi of the Great Forest by Dave Gunson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Deep in the forest disaster strikes and a family of kiwi must begin an epic journey to find a new home in the âÃÂÂÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÂÂgreat forestâÃÂÂÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÂÂ, known only through legend. Along the way they meet both friends and foes and encounter real danger before reaching their final destinati ...Show more