The Best New Zealand Fiction:Volume 1 by Fiona Kidman (Ed)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Superb fiction from top writers, both established and emerging, nestles between the gorgeous paua covers of this anthology. Well-known contributors include Fiona Farrell, Stephanie Johnson and Patricia Grace.
The Foreign Woman by Fiona Kidman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Explores the unexpected depths of emotion that lie beneath the surface of the lives of ordinary women.
The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
$5.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
On holiday, Susan is spirited away down a disused mineshaft by Odo and his Deathguard. Her dangerous adventures provide exciting fantasy for older readers. Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award 1982 Paperback (A Format)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease – they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’ It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale of hop ...Show more
The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hohepa Te Umuroa is with Te Rauparaha at the Wairau killings in the 1840s, and at Boulcotts Farm in the Hutt Valley when white settlers lose their lives. Convicted of insurrection, he and four companions are transported to the convict town of Hobart to serve their sentences. Ismay Glossop and her doctor ...Show more
Crime Story by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives - and end one of them, or perhaps both. There are many crimes in this chilling novel - brutal murder, corporate fraud, domestic violence and spiritual bankruptcy. Through ...Show more
The House of Strife by Maurice Shadbolt
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Book Book by Fiona Farrell
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth ...Show more
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Rich and satisfying, Sonata for Miriamwill stay with the reader long after they have put it down. A middle-aged man living on Auckland's Waiheke Island recalls vividly the sudden death of his daughter Miriam. Grief silenced Adam at the time, but now he decides to break the silence and explore the secret ...Show more
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A stunning first novel that was to become an international bestseller. Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her l ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Rosa once said that every change of dance partner brings something new out of you. A new way of moving. An entirely new compass is put in place...' The exotic rhythms of Lloyd Jones' new novel move from the West Coast of New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney; from the closing days of the First World Wa ...Show more