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The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
Aue by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man ...Show more
The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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
Winged Helmet White Horse by Karyn Hay
$35.00 NZD
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. Tim has master ...Show more
The Telling Time by P J McKay
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
When secrets demand to be told . . . Two young women, a generation apart, travel to opposite sides of the world on fraught journeys of self-discovery. 1958: Gabrijela yearns to escape the confines of bleak post-war Yugoslavia and her tiny fishing community, but never imagines she will be exiled to New Z ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
Addressed to Greta by Fiona Sussman
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Greta Jellings lives a small life. No expectation, no disappointment had been her mother’s mantra. It serves Greta well now too. At 30-something years of age she has spent her life pleasing others; working for the past 22 years in a pool-chemicals shop just one of the many compromises she’s had to make. ...Show more
Fishing for Maui by Isa Pearl Ritchie
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A novel about food, whānau and mental illness. Valerie reads George Eliot to get to sleep - just to take her mind off worries over her patients, her children, their father and the next family dinner. Elena is so obsessed with health, traditional food, her pregnancy and her blog she doesn't notice tha ...Show more
