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A Time to Dance and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories by Alice Munro
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: Fair
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent for which she is now widely celebrated. Set on farm ...Show more
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Less Than One - Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Malgudi Days - Short Stories from 'an Astrologer's Day' and from 'Lawley Road'; and Also Including Eight Additional Stories by R. K. Narayan
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayanas centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India athe writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.a Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone.When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving ...Show more
The Boarding House by William Trevor
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Boarding House by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel by one of the world's best writers William Bird has always taken in boarders who are on the fringes of society- the petty conman, the immigrant who's never been able to fit in, the blustering officer who really doesn't know what's what , and th ...Show more
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty? Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children?s books, turns his back momentarily. When ...Show more
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Joke by Milan Kundera; M.H. Heim (Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. 'Kundera is the saddest, funniest and most lovable of authors.' The Times
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: King Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and ...Show more
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