A Year at Hotel Gondola by Nicky Pellegrino
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Lyrical, heartrending and compelling' JOJO MOYES on Recipe for Life Kat is an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and i ...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
All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Wry, moving, beautifully observed and politically astute, this latest novel from one of our finest chroniclers pinpoints universal truths through very New Zealand lives. Life isn't always like it appears in the movies. In 1952, Irene Sandle takes her young daughter to Motueka. Irene was widowed during ...Show more
All Visitors Ashore by C.K. Stead
$13.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the foreground of All Visitor's Ashore is a set of bizarre characters, all of whom seem bent on escaping from New Zealand into a larger world. The 1951 waterfront lockout is on, the harbour is full of cargo vessels, but the passenger ships continue to sail. One by one or two by two the characters in ...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
Ancestry by Albert Wendt
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
In Ancestry Albert Wendt introduces us to a cast of characters who live life balanced between the Samoan and Palagi worlds. Andrea’s husband is surprised when she gets up early one Anzac Day to take their daughter and half-Palagi grandson to the dawn parade. Later that day Andrea tells him of a cryptic ...Show more
Anticipation by Tanya Moir
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This rich and darkly humorous novel is about family history and the power and risk of knowledge. 'I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine u inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.' Janine's mother had an obsession: her ancestry. But wha ...Show more
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Her came from behind and held her in his arms, told her to look again at earth and sky and water. Could she see how the world turned silver? People died, he told her, because they were afraid. They did not go out at night on dangerous water. They did not see the earth as it turned overnight to silver. F ...Show more
As the Earth Turns Silver: A Novel by Alison Wong
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards Fiction category. Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. The area known as Haining Street has an infamous reputation in the city, allegedly full of opium dens, weird food, gamb ...Show more
Ash by Louise Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss’s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children ...Show more
Attraction by Ruby Porter
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The present reckons with the past in Attraction. Porter's unnamed narrator is on a road trip between Auckland, Whangara and Levin with her friends Ashi and Ilana, haunted by the spectre of her emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend, her complicated family background and New Zealand's colonial history. Jealous ...Show more