The Looney: An Irish Fantasy by Spike Milligan

$5.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good

Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Malcolm Lowry

$6.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good

Unpublished in his lifetime, this book returns to the Mexico of the author's Under the Volcano. Sigbjorn Wilderness descends into an inferno of abysses, labyrinths and demons to confront his past and his destiny. His search finally takes him to the scene of the worst terrors of his drunken past.

Seven by Five by H.e. Bates

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The People's Act of Love by James Meek

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good

"Doctor Zhivago . . . Anna Karenina . . . A Hero of Our Time . . . The People's Act of Love will remind you of all these books . . . Magnificent" (The Washington Post Book World). Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russ ian Revolution, The People's Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless regiment, and a mystical separatist Christian sect. When a mysterious, charismatic stranger trudges into their snowy village with a frighteningly outlandish story to tell, its balance is shaken to the core. "The narrative drive is amazing. So is the cold clarity of Meek's imagination." --Stephen King "Meeks builds multiple narratives to a bloody, satisfying, yet unsettling conclusion. People's Act of Love stands not only as a keenly observed historical thriller but as a resonant tale of how one man's moral fervor can turn to horror." --Entertainment Weekly "Meek expertly renders each man's devotion to the task of securing paradise on earth, and exposes the unsettling affinity between the devout servant of God and the cold, calculating murderer." --The New Yorker "Set during the waning days of the Russian revolution, Meek's utterly absorbing novel captivates with its depiction of human nature in all its wartime extremes." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This ingenious, intricate novel, a meditation on grand ideas that is also a suspenseful page turner, avoids that too-easy wonder Russia often inspires in its admirers." --The New York Times Book Review ...Show more

Love with a Few Hairs by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles

$4.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good