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Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and ...Show more
Lewisville by Alexandra Tidswell
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Martha Grimm has a sorrowful secret, and her daughter Mary Ann is the only other person in New Zealand who knows it. Growing up dirt-poor in Willoughby, Warwickshire, in 1814, Martha dared to imagine a different life. Now she is a wealthy and respectable Wellington settler half a world away. But the cos ...Show more
The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
Doom Creek by Alan Carter
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared and is out of hiding and looking forward to the quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for doomsday by building a bolthole in the ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen (Eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a ...Show more
The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - 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
Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, he ...Show more
For Reasons of their Own by Chris Stuart
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Robbie Gray, a lesbian Detective Inspector living in fire ravaged Melbourne and falling foul of Police bureaucracy, gets called to a dead body lying in a wetland swamp alongside a rural train line. Under resourced, with no ID on the dead man and no missing reports she fails to make headway and the Feder ...Show more
Four Comic Novellas by Bob Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
"Four brilliant, original and funny novellas that will outrage and provoke readers' thoughts about modern life. Designed to be collected and for gift giving, this collection of sharp-witted tales on modern life will entertain and enthrall in the manner that only best-selling author Bob Jones can do and ...Show more
State Highway One by Sam Coley
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
This is what I want to do. I want to go home. I want you to come with me. 'I want to go from here . . .' Finger on Cape Reinga. '. . . to here.' Finger at the bottom of Stewart Island, right at the bottom of the map. It's been years since Alex was in New Zealand, and years since he spent any one-on-one ...Show more
The Strength of Eggshells by Kirsty Powell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui ...Show more
Necessary Secrets by Greg McGee
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Secrets tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult children. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70th birthday, the year ahead is told from four different points of view. A searing picture of New Zealand society t ...Show more