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American Pastoral by Philip Roth
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, grows up in the booming post-war years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts hi ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed forever: Robbie and Cecilia ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. Ostracised at first, he proves in time to be peace-loving, humorous - and a consummate musician. A burgeoning love with the local doctor's daughter, whose letter ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Money by Martin Amis
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
John Self, consumer extraordinaire, rolls around New York and London, making deals, spending wildly and doing reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrilling ...Show more
Possession : A Romance by A. S. Byatt
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
"Possession" is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating 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 ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21 | Reading Level: very good
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effect of this event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's heartbreaking novel. A tragic victim of the Nazi regime, Nemirovsky left behind this masterpie ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He ...Show more
The Gathering by Anne Enright
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. "The Gathering" is a novel about lov ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs ...Show more
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend, Rudi, who lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead lies the strangeness of London, which holds out the alluring possibility of friend ...Show more