A History of Crime: The Southern Double-Cross
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
The most dangerous people are those with the most to lose. It is 1887. The young colony of New Zealand is in the grip of a deep depression. Insolvent speculators conspire with corrupt politicians while Maori land slips from the hands of its owners. Into this landscape of barely suppressed conflict steps ...Show more
Addressed To Greta by Fiona Sussman
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Greta Jellings lives a small life. No expectation, no disappointment had been her mother’s mantra. It serves Greta well now too. At 30-something years of age she has spent her life pleasing others; working for the past 22 years in a pool-chemicals shop just one of the many compromises she’s had to make. ...Show more
Always a Grunt by Mike Ledingham
$29.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Readers of Mike Ledingham's first book, ONCE A GRUNT, will be familiar with the characters in many of these stories. As with the first book, the characters in Always a Grunt are loosely categorized into military-related and non-military yarns. There are also a couple of uncategorized stories, both of th ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
Audition by Pip Adam
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A finalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 - The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Audition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, the ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
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 sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more
Better the Blood: The past never truly stays buried. Welcome to the dark side of paradise. by Michael Bennett
$26.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
‘A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Maori culture’ Val McDermid A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION. A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY. THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED. Hana Westerman is a tenacious Ma ori detective juggling single mot ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
Bound by Vanda Symon
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
A brutal home invasion shocks the nation. A man is murdered, his wife bound, gagged and left to watch. But when Detective Sam Shephard scratches the surface, the victim, a successful businessman, is not all he seems to be. And when the evidence points to two of Dunedin's most hated criminals, the case s ...Show more