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Cousins by Salley Vickers
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the family holds some clue to the chain of e ...Show more
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Peter Hansome's death in a car crash, his mind on neither his wife, nor his mistress, precipitates all sorts of relationships between those he leaves behind. Not that Peter has entirely left. Some sort of spirit, whom Bridget recognizes as Peter, has something he needs to do. First published 2001; this ...Show more
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. A ...Show more
Mr.Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Beautifully rejacked edition of this wonderful novel from the best-selling author of âe~Miss Garnet's Angelâe(tm) and âe~Instances of the Number 3âe(tm). Many years ago Mr Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction which grew to be an international best-seller. But his reputation is on the decline and ...Show more
The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each morning. No one quite knows where she came from ...Show more
The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of Mr Golightly's Holiday and Miss Garnet's Angel. 'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr. David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child, he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and ...Show more
Where Three Roads Meet - The Myth of Oedipus by Salley Vickers
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across Hampstead Heath to relate the story of his life. First published 2007.
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