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So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
38.99 NZD
Category: General 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
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
25.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Edgar Kellogg , a disgruntled New York lawyer who has always yearned to be popular, is more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist mov ...Show more
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Sa ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good -very good
It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hardÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂliving snooker player. Using a parallel universe str ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Using a parallel universe structure, we follow Irina ...Show more
The Standing Chandelier: A Novella by Lionel Shriver
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Condition: **NEW** 'This early stocking filler of a novel ... is a brutal treat' Daily MailFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift. When Weston Babansky receives an extravagant engagement present from hi ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tackling the ultimate taboo - of a mother disliking her child - Lionel Shriver has written a brutally compelling novel about a high-school mass murder. It is terrifying, gripping and utterly brilliant. Winner of the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more