Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Gilead | Reading Level: very good
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA PBS Great American Read selection Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 2 ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$26.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: The Famished Road Trilogy
Winner of The Booker Prize 1991 So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: good
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
$35.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
$27.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
It's 1989, and Harry Rabbit Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son, Nelson, is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outl ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$37.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: near fine
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FIC ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes . . . until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.For Norman, his committal to a ...Show more
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece set against the landscape of the American Southwest. 'Superb' New York Times A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Mexico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather's, wedding him to the rhythm of the ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its ...Show more