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, they ...Show more
Auē by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
Behind the Tattooed Face by Pat Baker
$29.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Reprinted March 2006. This extraordinary Maori Novel was published in 1975 and has been reprinted many times since. It was the first time that anyone, Maori or Pakeha, had written frankly about what Maori life had really been like. A film of this novel is in the early stages of production.
Beside the Dark Pool - A memoir Part 2 by Fiona Kidman
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In her first volume of memoir, Fiona Kidman described her background and childhood, evoking the places she lived in and the people she knew. It finished with the publication of her first, hugely successful novel. In this sequel she takes us through the writing of over 20 more books, of her involvement i ...Show more
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
$26.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
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 motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s l ...Show more
Between My Father and the King: New and Collected Stories by Janet Frame
$29.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King. Previously publishe ...Show more
Bikepacking Aotearoa by The Kennet Brothers
$29.90 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Bikepacking Aotearoa is a guide to twenty cycling adventures around New Zealand. The trips range in length from two days to two weeks and explore the less travelled parts of this beautiful little country. New equipment and a change of mindset have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Bike pack ...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 d ...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
Bird Words by Elisabeth Easther
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A lively anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, celebrating the birds of Aotearoa.On the skylinea hawklanguidly typinga hunting poemwith its wings.- Hone TuwhareNew Zealand birds have inspired mythology, song, whimsical stories, detailed observation, humour and poetry. There are tales of shooting ...Show more