Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
RICHARD GLOVER: "Someone told me this is “Philip Roth meets #MeToo” which had me reaching for a copy. It’s hilarious, bleak, oddly sexy, wonderfully satiric. If you’ve been divorced it may explain why; if you are still together, it proves congratulations are in order." Leigh Sales: "You will not be abl ...Show more
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The book is a biting satire on the decay of capitalism. It is descended from Gay's Beggars Opera via Brecht's reworking of it which he called the Threepenny Opera. It is set in London circa 1900 and the crooked deals concern Boer War supplies. Today, Brecht is still considered by many to have been one o ...Show more
The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Sex, booze, and Russian intrigue . . . A cool cocktail mixed with parts of Updike and De Vries, with a peel of le Carr ."--The New York Times Book Review Richard Vaisey is a respected scholar specializing in Russian studies when Anna Danilova arrives on campus. A visiting Russian poet with a mission mo ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
Winds of the Day by Howard Spring
50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This was the last Howard Spring novel to be published in his lifetime, and it features a remarkable character in the form of Alice Openshaw. Orphaned at the age of twelve, Alice is forced to work as a servant in a class-ridden society. However, her harsh experiences only serve to fire her indomitable sp ...Show more
The Tragedy of Osmond the Great Turk by Lodowick Carlell
45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Samuel Chew pointed out that the treatment in the 1657 play of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 calls up the legend of ‘Irene’, the Greek captive with whom the victorious sultan falls in love. The Ottoman victory was seared into the Christian cultural memory, and playwrights exploited this knowledge, ...Show more
Disenchanted by Pierre Loti
50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Disenchanted is a novel written by Pierre Loti and first published in 1906. The book tells the story of a French naval officer named Yves who falls in love with a Japanese woman named Oyouki during a visit to Japan. Despite their cultural differences and the disapproval of Yves' fellow officers, the two ...Show more
Adzuma by Sir Edwin Arnold
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Or the Japanese Wife. A play in four acts. The play is set in Japan and revolves around the story of a young Japanese woman named Adzuma who is married to a British diplomat named Sir Harry. Adzuma is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her duty to her Japanese heritage.
Zarafa - The true story of a giraffe's journey from the plains of Africa to the heart of post-Napoleonic France by Michael Allin
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of Zarafa, the Masai giraffe presented to Charles X of France in 1826, and how she captivated and inspired all those who came to see her. Allin describes the giraffe-inspired fashions of the day in this period of post-Revolutionary France.
The Shoes of The Fisherman by Morris West
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A new pope has been elected and there are many problems he must solve, including a confrontation with the Soviet leader who was his jailor in a Siberian prison camp.
Over the River by John Galsworthy
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The ninth and final book in the Forsyte Chronicles.
The Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome.
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
They travel by train from London Victoria to Dover and have a rough overnight crossing of the English Channel to Ostend and thence by train to Cologne where they spend a night in a hotel. The following day they visit Cologne Cathedral before catching the train to Munich, travelling alongside the Rhine. ...Show more