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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India?s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight?s children? all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Other Passports - Poems 1958-85 by Clive James
$8.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
He climbed a ladder to reach another man's wife and gave himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones, mutilated and unmanned, he cries out to Israel, to the Lord his God, to Abraham and Isaac and ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely ...Show more
Round Ireland In Low Gear (Picador Books) (Reprint Edition) by Eric Newby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby decided that the depths of winter would be the very best time to explore Ireland by mountain bike. He even managed to persuade his long-suffering wife, Wanda to accompany him. From the shores of Donegal to the holy mountains, Newby guides the reader on a tale of misha ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; Hilda Rosner (Translator)
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and comp ...Show more
Slowly Down The Ganges by Eric Newby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.On his f ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Booker McConnell Prize winnner 1985.
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In this "irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. In the arid summer heat, four ...Show more
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | 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 Conscience of Words & Earwitness by Elias Canetti; Joachim Neugroschel (Translator)
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Category: Essays | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good