American Fiction 20th Century
New York Trilogy
$19.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
City of Glass: Quinn, a writer of detective fiction, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written.
Ghosts: Blue has been hired by White to spy on Black. From the window of his rented room, Blue... More »
Cloudsplitter
$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion.... More »
Year Of Pleasures
$24.95 (Paperback book / Arrow )
A woman rediscovers meaning in life - a rich and deeply satisfying novel by the bestselling author of THE ART OF MENDING and OPEN HOUSE. When Betta Nolan's husband dies, she honours a promise she made to him to move to a... More »
Tooth And Claw
$22.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his a... More »
In Watermelon Sugar
$23.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
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Good Earth
$19.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )
Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing b... More »
Tales Of Ordinary Madness
$26.95 (Paperback book / City Lights )
With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sens... More »
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The anarchic, phenomenally strong–selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket and an anecdote packed P.S. section.
WELCOME TO INTERZONE...
Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the bes... More »
In Cold Blood
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores ... More »
Wonder Boys
$24.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
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Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay
$24.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author of Wonder Boys. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the... More »
Girl With A Pearl Earring
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration, A Girl With a Pearl Earring is a brilliant historical novel about the corruption of innocence, Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Hollan... More »
I Heard The Owl Call My Name
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who has not long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in the wilds of British Columbia.
While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals, the joys and so... More »
White Noise
$24.99 (Paperback book / Picador )
First published in 1984, White Noise, one of DeLillo's most highly acclaimed novels, tells the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the... More »
The Red Tent
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I beca... More »
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
$32.95 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
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House Of Sand And Fog
$23.00 (Paperback book / Hachette )
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American Psycho
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six. He works on Wall St. He is charming, handsome, rich, successful . . . and one of the most vicious killers in history.
"American Psycho" is a funhouse mirror held up against modern culture. ... More »
As I Lay Dying
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her am... More »
The Great Gatsby
$14.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular t... More »
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The eighty-year-old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistle Stop Cafe provides ... More »
Sportswriter
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent lo... More »
Cold Mountain
$25.00 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts ... More »
Princess Bride
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
First published in 1973, The Princess Bride is a cult book which later became a cult film. It tells the story of Buttercup, the most beautiful girl in the world. And of fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, hate... More »
Snow Falling On Cedars
$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with cold-blooded murder. It is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad a... More »
Catch Twenty Two
$21.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously... More »
Old Man And The Sea
$21.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize of Literature.... More »
Mr Norris Changes Trains
$25.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
First published in 1933, Mr Norris Changes Trains portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquantly evocative of... More »
Wings Of The Dove
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is... More »
On The Road
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognised... More »
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock ther... More »
Poisonwood Bible
$23.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Ba... More »
To Kill A Mockingbird
$21.95 (Paperback book / )
Set in a sleepy town in South Alabama during the Great Depression in the 1930s, this multi-layered story dissects the white and black communities of the American South. Told with gentle humour, it focuses on religious tu... More »
Executioners Song
$28.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product o... More »
Tales Of The City
$24.95 (Paperback book / Blackstone Press )
A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, roma... More »
All The Pretty Horses
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers.
As his grandfather dies, and his parents succumb to their own worries, John is cut off from the only life he has ever wanted.
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Border Trilogy
$32.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Cormac McCarthy's monumental trilogy together for the first time in one volume.
The Border Trilogy chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys... More »
Bright Lights Big City
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powd... More »
Tropic Of Capricorn
$24.95 (Paperback book / Grove Press )
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Tropic Of Capricorn
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller‘s early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst ‘a galaxy of screwballs‘ to frantic, hilariou... More »
Deep End Of The Ocean
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa )
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story – a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deep... More »
Delta Of Venus Modern Classic
$17.95 (Unknown / Penguin )
In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own u... More »
Fight Club
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Tyler Durden, a charismatic psychopath starts a fight in a bar's parking lot that attracts a group of disenchanted men. They start a bare-knuckle fight club with the following set of rules: More »
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Shipping News
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Award and America's National Book Award, this story features Quoyle, a failed journalist, a failed husband and a born loser who heads for a remote corner of Newfoundland wi... More »
Crying Of Lot 49
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance: trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers... More »
Atlas Shrugged
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any bo... More »
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
$27.95 (Paperback book / Bantam Press )
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Portnoy's Complaint
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy's who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgetable childhood. More »
Catcher in the Rye
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. T... More »
Stone Diaries
$22.95 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Her ordinary life is made extraordinary in the telling. More »
Pilots Wife
$22.95 (Paperback book / Abacus )
As a pilot's wife in the New England mill town of her birth, Kathryn Lyons has learned to expect intense exhilaration, occasional boredom and long spells apart from her husband - but nothing prepares Kathryn for the late... More »
Thousand Acres A
$25.00 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
Larry Cook‘s farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single–mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters is disarmi... More »
Angle Of Repose
$25.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. Through the p... More »
Grapes Of Wrath
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Calif... More »
Agony And The Ecstasy
$27.95 (Paperback book / Arrow )
Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His timeThe turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola.His... More »
Joy Luck Club
$23.95 (Paperback book / Minerva )
A story of four mothers and their first generation Chinese American daughters. More »
The Secret History
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of... More »
Confederacy Of Dunces
$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma... More »
Accidental Tourist
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
How does a man addicted to routine cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon does his best. He writes Armchair Tourist guidebooks that soothe the travel-hating business man. Even when his son, Ethan, is murdered and hi... More »
Rabbit, Run
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
It's 1959 and Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school
sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in
a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a
house full of overflowing as... More »
Slaughterhouse Five
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world'... More »
Color Purple
$22.95 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no bette... More »
Age Of Innocence
$14.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, wh... More »
Evidence Of Things Unseen
$22.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )
This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of thi... More »
Bonfire Of The Vanities
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Tom Wolfe's modern American best-selling satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" who has it all - a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful... More »
When Nietzsche Wept A Novel Of Obsession
$32.95 (Paperback book / Harper Us )
In 1882 while holidaying in Vienna, Dr Josef Breuer is approached by a beautiful, imperious young woman seeking help for her lover, Friedrich Nietzsche. His friends fear for his life but he refuses all aid. So begins an ... More »
Revolutionary Road
$19.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dre... More »
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
$31.95 (Paperback book / Random Century )
In poetic prose Elizabeth Smart writes of her affair with English poet George Barker, and the implications of this for a woman in 1940s America. This edition also includes Rogues & Rascals, considered a sequel to the... More »