Tu by Patricia Grace
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
Harlequin Rex by Owen Marshall
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of 2000 montana Fiction medal. With the advent of the new millenium comes a new disease - Harlequin Rex - and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in Owen Marshall's new novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and all must cope as best they can. Their response is influ ...Show more
Live Bodies by Maurice Gee
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a young man in Vienna in the 1930s, Josef Mandl was a member of underground left-wing groups battling the Nazis. In New Zealand during the Second World War Mandl is judged a communist agitator and interned on Somes Island along with several other Germans and Italians. Josef makes two unsuccessful att ...Show more
The God Boy by Ian Cross
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: Very Good
Im a God boy, Sister, I said. You dont have to worry about me, Im a God boy. Jimmy Sullivan believed he was protected by God until his parents unhappy marriage finally broke down, with tragic consequences. Now a disturbed thirteen-year-old at a Catholic boarding school, Jimmy rages at God for fa ...Show more
Edwin + Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story by Laurence Fearnley
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This beautifully written novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual friendship formed between 62-year-old photographer Edwin and 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting photographs for her wedding. ...Show more
The Blackbird Sings at Dusk by Linda Olsson
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A compelling novel about friendship, identity and love. One winter evening, Elias, a young artist, watches a woman move into his apartment building. After closing her door, however, she is not seen again. A misdirected letter finally gives Elias the opportunity to make contact. But inside her dark apart ...Show more
The Children's Pond by Tina Shaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While working at a trout-fishing lodge on the Tongariro River, Jessica slips into a relationship with a handsome, charming Maori lawyer. When the body of his troubled niece Chantelle is found in the Children's Pond, J ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author.Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
Days Are Like Grass by Sue Younger
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A beautiful New Zealand summer. An ugly past that won't stay buried. Paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman has reluctantly returned to Auckland from London. Calm, rational and in control, she loves delicately repairing her small patients' wounds. Tragically, wounds sometimes made by the children's own fami ...Show more
The Virgin & the Whale: A Love Story by Carl Nixon
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. Sh ...Show more