White Lies by Witi Ihimaera; Dana Rotberg
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful, prize-winning novella from the much-loved author of The Whale Rider, plus a moving screenplay, film stills and commentary on writing and movie making. A medicine woman a giver of life is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal consequences. When sh ...Show more
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories Extended Edition by Michael Morrissey (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories was published by HarperCollins in 2000, and has been a steady seller since that date. It is now time to update the collection for important short stories published since that date, and to review its overview of New Zealand writing as a whole.The Flamin ...Show more
Sister Hollywood by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a girl who ran away from New Zealand to Hollywood, her affair with a producer, her marriage and her rise to power. C.K.Stead won the 1985 New Zealand Book Award for All Visitors Ashore. He also wrote The Death of the Body, Smith's Dream and Five for the Symbol.
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wi ...Show more
The Changeover - A Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy. The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn't the first time she'd been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carm ...Show more
A Soldier's Tale by Michael Kennedy Joseph
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The House of Strife by Maurice Shadbolt
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the third book in Shadbolt's Maori Trilogy, and is set in the 1840s when New Zealand was annexed by Queen Victoria. It combines historical detective work with humour and a host of eccentric characters. The two other books in the trilogy are Season of the Jew and Monday's Warriors.
24 Hours by Margaret Mahy
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Teen mystery by one of New Zealands' respected authors.
All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
The Big Music [selected papers] by Kirsty Gunn
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Big Music" tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of d ...Show more