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7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
His whole life Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic gold. Everything he's ever done - every thought, every dream, every action - takes him closer to that moment of glory, of vindication, when the world will see him for what he is: the fastest, the strongest and the best. His life has been ...Show more
Barracuda (TV Tie In) by Christos Tsiolkas
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Tender and brutal and blazingly brilliant, the new novel from the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slaptakes an unflinching look at modern Australia - at our hopes and dreams, our friendships and our families - and asks what it means to be a good person, and what it takes to become o ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by ev ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020. The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and ...Show more
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In h ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation.....This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go...'...there is ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
23.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe. Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. First published 2008.
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...Show more
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