Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sole Survivor brings Maurice Gee's richly entertaining family chronicle up to the present day. The career of Duggie Plum (as ruthless in politics as in sex) is relayed to us with cool, outrageous irony by his journalist cousin, Raymond Sole. Raymond - known to his family as Ramong and to his enemies as ...Show more
I am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Pilgrim Family | Reading Level: good
A classic bestseller that's been in print for over 20 years, this gripping YA thriller follows a teenage girl caught in a religious cult. Imagine that your mother tells you she's going away. She is going to leave you with relatives you've never heard of - and they are members of a strict religious cult. ...Show more
Faces in the Water & The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An omnibus of two early novelsIn Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of my future'. Th ...Show more
The Battle of Crete by Christopher Worth
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: The Rabbit Hunter II | Reading Level: near fine
If one considers what happened in war-time Greece in 1941 to have been the curtain-raiser, then the subsequent battle in Crete can best be described as the main event. This sequel to the well-received The Rabbit Hunter again focuses on Second Lieutenant Neil Rankin and his platoon of fictional soldiers ...Show more
Eddy, Eddy by Kate De Goldi
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexp ...Show more
The Collections by Patricia Donovan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Self-styled" writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of Englan ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of tw ...Show more
Nancy Business by R W R McDonald
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tippy, Uncle Pike and Devon are back for another camp cozy crime mystery from the award-winning author of The Nancys. The gripping, heart-warming and hilarious sequel to R.W.R. McDonald's smash hit The Nancys, winner of the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. It's been four months since Tippy, ...Show more
Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Wild futuristic ride by author of Vintner's Luck. Black Oxen is the story of Carme Risk's pursuit of her beautiful and not quite human father through two worlds and three changes of identity. In her forties, in the year 2022, Risk has entered narrative therapy. Her memories and her father's journal take ...Show more