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
Saville by David Storey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
'I never thought we'd do it. Come up from nowt, and now see where we are', says Colin Saville's father when his son wins a place at the grammar school in town. In spite of his brilliance, Colin is uneasy in finding his footing in 1940s middle class society, so different from the mining village of his ch ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
March by Geraldine Brooks
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colon ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally mee ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$25.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$30.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
Rites of Passage by William Golding; Robert McCrum (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners
With an introduction by Robert McCrumThe first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinkin ...Show more