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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in a bizarre lu ...Show more
Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the follow-up to his hugely successful and critically acclaimed Atomised, Houellebecq explores the hedonism of Lanzarote, the archetypal Mediterranean holiday island, in a book that is blisteringly funny and acid. In the sector of the holiday market that caters for sun, sangria and house music, n ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drug ...Show more
The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq
29.99 NZD
37.99 (21% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news.
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured th ...Show more
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarote, is a thought-provoking, shocking and ultimately moving examination of the modern world. Daniel is a successful stand-up comedian who has built his reputation on ...Show more