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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
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 "his" house as well, it's war ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Following the success of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not. After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstr ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$27.99 NZD
Category: 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: Essays & Anthologies | 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
$29.99 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: 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
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
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
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
$27.99 NZD
Category: 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 by Lionel Shriver
$25.00 NZD
Category: 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
Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. ...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