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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General 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: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
24.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
34.99 NZD
Category: 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
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
37.99 NZD
Category: General 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
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General 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
Mania by Lionel Shriver
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Motion of the Body through Space by Lionel Shriver
25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. As he jo ...Show more
Property by Lionel Shriver
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril - both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties - make a pact: to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty.A lot can change in thirty years, however...By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should ...Show more
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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