The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
$19.99 NZD
Category: Sci Fi & Fantasy | Reading Level: near fine
Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loat ...Show more
The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Extremely ambitious". (Financial Times). "An imaginative tour de force ...She really is a genius". (Guardian). "A delight". (New Statesman). FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR NICOLA BARKER. To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To temple owner, ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$28.99 NZD
Category: Graham Greene | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition by Aldous Huxley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
As seen on tv and at the feelies. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ...Show more
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed Master of the Universe . He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraor ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
$27.00 NZD
Category: Sci Fi & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen- year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.By the ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
$26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange poetry. Many of his characters are Jewish (the title story, for example, is about a rabbinical student try ...Show more
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, ...Show more
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
$29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer ...Show more