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Day by A. L. Kennedy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Bef ...Show more
Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy
$18.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and their teenage daughter, Mary. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives in ...Show more
Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a ch ...Show more
Looking for the Possible Dance by A L Kennedy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Praise the Lord and pass the orchids - a real writer is among us, with a beautiful first novel' Julie Burchill Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her fathe ...Show more
Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stories collected in ORIGINAL BLISS are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God- but it is simply love that she's missing. She can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly M ...Show more
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinkin ...Show more
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