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Auē by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter's night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of strangers into a web of confusion that over the course of a few days changes all their lives. There's the young Maori widow just trying to raise her children, ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden : An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Elizabeth & Larsen Knox
$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
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
The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime-writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no-one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their seven year old son Zach goes missing, naturally the police and the public wonder ...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
Spellbound (Gabriel's Bay #3) by Catherine Robertson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The delightful third novel in the bestselling Gabriel's Bay series. Big trouble is brewing, secrets are coming out, threatening reputations and even lives. Outsiders are in town with questionable motives. Power and privilege are casting a seductive but ominous spell. And the Love Bus is completely munte ...Show more
Necessary Secrets by Mcgee Greg
$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
Buy Me Love by Greg Brook
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Disappointed by the way small-town New Zealand novels tend to leave out pumas, ghosts and power-crazed dictators? Don't worry; that's about to change…On the day that old friends Mark, Andy and Angela are unexpectedly reunited, they also become millionaires, along with the other 704 lucky people in Bridg ...Show more