The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces (PB) by John Kennedy Toole
$26.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
$24.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: very good
Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and trag ...Show more
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Reading Level: good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 b>'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ... fantastic' ZADIE SMITHak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents it was obvious from the way his fathe ...Show more