A Line of Sight by Adrienne Jansen
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Line of Sight is a compelling whodunnit woven through a story of community, family and an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. When Nick and Graham set out rabbit shooting one August day neither of them realise their lives are about to change forever. They spot a couple of suspected cannabis growers on t ...Show more
Waiting for Einstein by Nigel Cox
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sing to Me, Dreamer - A collector's edition with four stories by Shonagh Koea
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shonagh Koea's classic novel is reissued together with an introduction by the author and four previously uncollected short stories" It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India...As my voic ...Show more
For Everyone Concerned & other stories by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This exhilarating mixture of fables, satires, notes to self and short shorts will further enhance Wilkins's reputation as one of the most daring and innovative of New Zealand's leading writers. First published June 2007.
Collected Stories by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A collection of stories exploring moments in the lives of ordinary people, including The widow, Schooldays, Eleventh Holiday, and Buried Treasur Old Bones.
The Desolation Angel: Short Stories by Tim Wilson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"When I first met the Desolation Angel he was sprawled insolently across the top of my refrigerator. He wore a black three-button single-vent suit, and smoked a long cigar, the ashes of which he tapped into his left jacket pocket. He didn't acknowledge me until I was almost on him. Raising two red eyes ...Show more
A Many Coated Man by Owen Marshall
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when an ordinary man becomes a messiah? A witty, prescient and eloquent satire by one of New Zealand's finest writers. Far into the twenty-first century, Albous Slaven's life is spectacularly and irrevocably altered after he hangs for an instant from a power line. While recuperating, he sen ...Show more
Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
FEATHERSTONE: an attractive small rural town serving outlying estates; bank, post office, school... At first glance, Kirsty Gunn's small country town is like any other - a closely connected community bound by habit and familiarity. Yet as we're invited to spend the weekend in Featherstone we come to rea ...Show more
The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'We had an elder brother,' Auntie Pat said. 'His name was Sam. ' Her voice softened. She handed me the package. 'This will explain everything.' Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret - about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. ...Show more
The Lonely Margins of the Sea by Shonagh Koea
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Stephanie was always the outsider - never allowed to play with the china dolls on the staircase landing, always on the edge of family events, shut out of the important secrets. Now, after many years, she returns to the family house, on the lonely margins of the sea, to care for her cousin Louise. But no ...Show more
Nailing Down the Saint by Craig Cliff
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Hollywood, fatherhood, levitation. This smart, funny, thought-provoking novel is full of surprises. Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, he's working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and hi ...Show more
Paint Your Wife by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Once, long ago when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting portraits of the women of the town in lieu of payment for catching all the rats. His special favourite was Alice, who returned his attentions. Her husband George came home from the war, and set out to prove his love and reclaim his wi ...Show more