Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky he ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank: Comics, 2010-2019 by Sarah Laing
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next installmen ...Show more
Let the River Stand by Vincent O'Sullivan
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"A New Zealand classic, Let the River Standwon the Montana Book Awards in 1994.In the deceptively quiet Waikato of the 1930s and 1940s, a number of lives connect in a complex web of family ties, desire and violence. The events of this story also take in boxing, farming, devotion and perversion, ranging ...Show more
Let the River Stand (Popular Penguin) by Vincent O'Sullivan
$13.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the deceptively quiet Waikato of the 1930s and 1940s, a number of lives connect in a complex web of family ties, desire and violence. The events of this story also take in boxing, farming, devotion and perversion, ranging as far as Tasmania and the Spanish Civil War. Alex, tall and solitary, striding ...Show more
Lifting by Wilkins Damien
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Amy is a store detective at Cutty's, the oldest and grandest department store in the country. She's good at her job. She can read people and catch them. But Cutty's is closing down. Amy has a young baby, an ailing mother, and a large mortgage. She also has a past as an activist. This compelling novel op ...Show more
Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen
$37.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A novel about loss and light, about storytelling and the sea. The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. But how secure can this new home be, with th ...Show more
Limestone by Fiona Farrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an Art History conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent novel' The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we ...Show more
Live Bodies by Maurice Gee
$30.00 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
Live Bodies (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$13.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
As a young man in the 1930s, Josef battled the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. He fled to New Zealand, only to be interned as a dangerous enemy on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. After the war, he rebuilt his life and married Nancy. Despite his success, Josef still stands askew from his times. In hi ...Show more
Lives we Leave Behind by Maxine Alterio
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
In July 1915 the hospital ship Maheno leaves Wellington with seventy New Zealand nurses on board. Addie Harrington and Meg Dutton are assigned to the same cabin. Quiet and cautious, Addie is taken aback by her impetuous, fun-loving roommate. The two women seem to have little in common other than a desir ...Show more