Ellie and the Shadow Man by Maurice Gee
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This superb novel from the bestselling Maurice Gee is the story of Ellie. It is a story in five parts, each languishing on a significant period of her life. It ranges from the 1950s when, as a girl, she lived in a YWCA hostel in Lower Hutt, to her twenties where she lives on a commune in Nelson, through ...Show more
The Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book Awards, Fiction section. Wellington, 1935. James Tinling, a former Cabinet Minister, plans a political comeback, although a brash newcomer stands in his way. James has methods of dealing with upstarts, but is handicapped by secrets in his life. Eric Clifton, worl ...Show more
The House Guest by Barbara Anderson
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As ususal Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.
The Peacocks and other stories by Barbara Anderson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Summer in the Gravel Pit by Maurice Duggan
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Collected Stories by Barbara Anderson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A wonderful mix of Barbara AndersonÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs short fiction, including six stories not previously published in New Zealand. ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂHer irony, compassion, awareness of the significance of small moments, neatly deflating use of anticlimax and sense of the ridiculous place h ...Show more
Sleeping With The Angels: Stories by Kevin Ireland
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Skylark Lounge by Nigel Cox
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In the middle of his life, Jack Grout found himself abducted by aliens. There were other things. His wife left him. His son came one night to the Skylark Lounge - the pool hall Jack bought after throwing in his job in newspaper advertising - and punched him. And there was the treatment for melanoma. But ...Show more
The Curative by Charlotte Randall
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of an inmate in Bedlam, the London mental asylum, in the early 19th century. Living in appalling conditions he still manages to be witty, urbane and seemingly sane. As the story unfolds we learn about life in the asylum, about his life before Bedlam and how he came to be there.
Waterline by Chris Else
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Have you heard the news? Candy always had the news. There's a terrible, terrible storm coming. The winds will be 380 kilometres an hour. Should we be worried? Billie asked. Well, apparently, what you have to do is put your head inside a paper bag and hide under the bed. That can't be right, Ming said. T ...Show more