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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Classic Lionel Shriver ... Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into 'hi ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appallin ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Love me, love my game', says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human ...Show more
MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACE 10 COPY PACK by Shriver, Lionel
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Pack contains: 10 x 9780007560790 Motion Of The Body Through Space
Property by Lionel Shriver
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Interm ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. Yet he comes to realise that his wife, Glynis, has never been serious about making the change. On the very day that he announces he is leaving for the island of Pemba with or without her, she informs h ...Show more
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Shep Knacker has long saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without ...Show more
The Book Club Bible by Lionel Shriver (foward by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Every book-club member has felt the pressure to pick out a new title for the whole group to read and enjoy. Wouldn't it be great if there was a book that helped you to make that all-important decision and maintain your place of respect in the book club?Fear no more, The Book Club Bible is here to help, ...Show more