Daughters and Sons by Ivy Compton-Burnett
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Original, artful and elegant... To read her for the first time is a singular experience' Hilary Mantel'Cruel genius' Maggie NelsonSabine Ponsonby presides over her large household with despotic force, rivalled only by her imperious daughter, Hetta. As her needling cruelties cause one governess after an ...Show more
Goldeneye by John Gardner
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: James Bond 007 | Reading Level: good
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquis ...Show more
Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her life, Joe Bristow, she dreams of escaping the poverty and opening her own tea shop. But one by ...Show more
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it "...a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorn ...Show more
The Lovely Lady by D H Lawrence
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: The Albatross Library - Volume 97 | Reading Level: good
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
The Feud by Thomas Berger
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Berger chronicles small-town America of the 1930s in his narrative of the feud between the Beelers of Hornbeck and the Bullards of Milville.
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good