The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since. London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears her New Zealand employers Judge and Lady Martin are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle old ...Show more
August by Bernard Beckett
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of their lives, the sequences of events that brought them together and the shocking tru ...Show more
The Book of Secrets by Fiona Kidman
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him fr ...Show more
Tia by Alistair Campbell
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Pacific Writers | Reading Level: very good
Sidewinder by Alistair Campbell
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Pacific Writers | Reading Level: good-very good
Plumb by Maurice Gee
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive ...Show more
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
The Burning Boy by Maurice Gee
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"The Burning Boy is a vivid picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change.Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness. The Burning Boywon the New Zealand Book Awards in 1991.'Written with ve ...Show more