Category: NZ Fiction
Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for bla ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
Honest and moving, this intense storycarefully tracks a relationship stunted in childhood but given a second chance. One sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There's only one recorded, But both belong to me. Maria has found a sanctuary in a rented house, overlooking a small Spanish villag ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the success of Karyn Hay’s historical fiction novel, The March of the Foxgloves, Karyn returns with Winged Helmet, White Horse – more reminiscent in style of her debut, Emerald Budgies. Set in contemporary London, Winged Helmet, White Horse is a darkly comic psychological drama. T ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Blackball, West Coast, pre-World War I. Three youngsters; Pansy, Clem and Otto. Life had an idyllic surface with a far from idyllic underside for youngsters in this mining town. As a World War approaches, the harsh realities become apparent just because you are smart and motivated there is no certaint ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral p ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
A funny and poignant Gabriel?s Bay story from the bestselling Catherine Robertson.Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, the newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit into Gabriel?s Bay. His challenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities of the Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction t ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers and artists, plus reviews of the lates ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Heading Dog Who Spilt in Half is a charming blend of tall tales, shanties and legends from New Zealand, all bound up in a visually pleasing collection. The tales themselves are simple and narrated in a light, yarn-like style, complemented well by the stark black and white line art of the images. Som ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Landfall Ser.
Featured artists: Sharon Singer, Ngahuia Harrison, Peter Trevelyan. Awards & Competitions: Results and winning essays from the 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition, and judges report by Emma Neale. Writers: John Adams, Peter Bland, Laura Borrowdale, Bill Bradford, Iain Britton, Medb C ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in v ...Show more
Category: NZ Fiction
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and ra ...Show more
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