The Hotel Albatross by Debra Adelaide
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the bestselling author of The Household Guide to Dying comes a funny and moving account of life in the country.The Captain and his wife accidentally find themselves managing the Hotel Albatross. The Captain floats between the hotel's various bars: chatting to and chatting up customers, breaking up ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A brilliant collection of new stories from Julian Barnes, each dealing with the nuances of life and its inevitable end. The characters in Julian Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with r ...Show more
Senseless by Paul Golding
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set against the backdrop of 1980s London, Senseless chronicles, through the jaded faculties of George, its narrator, a world which veers from dancing to desiring, from laughter to disaster, from recreational drugs to prescribed ones. At its core lie George's two principal relationships
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$34.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2004. The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life ...Show more
The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus #2 :Native Tongue, Striptease, & Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
$34.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
Native Tongue: A hilarious black crime comedy starring PR man Joe Winder, who winds up on the trail of some butter-fingered thugs who've stolen his precious blue-tongued mango voles...Strip Tease: When corrupt and lecherous congressman Dave Dilbeck throws himself at stripper Erin Grant on stage at the t ...Show more
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel that is simultaneously a universal story about love in all its forms and guises, and an intimate love letter from a husband to his wife.Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate âÃÂàenough to make her his wife and to shape his life aroun ...Show more
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
$34.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
A novel that is simultaneously a universal story about love in all its forms and guises, and an intimate love letter from a husband to his wife. Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate - enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her - ...Show more