A Better Place: A Novel of Early New Zealand by Enid Meyer
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This absorbing story is set in Greytown, in the Wairarapa, in the late 1860s. Greytown, a Small Farms Settlement, was the first inland township in New Zealand, but its beginnings were very like those elsewhere. A Better Place is a story about life in the township and on the area's small farms. A young ...Show more
A Change of Key by Adrienne Jansen
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Marko has come to the ends of the earth to escape a once illustrious past in Bulgaria. So why does a Polish bookstore owner call him a traitor? And who covertly photographed him for the newspaper? Someone knows who he is. They are trying to expose him in his new country, and there is nothing he can do t ...Show more
A Crooked Rib by Judy Corbalis
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A compelling novel based on the true story of Sir George Grey's disastrous and scandalous marriage. Trapped in an increasingly loveless union, Sir George and his wife, Eliza Lucy, each sought affection elsewhere. Lady Grey's indiscretion caused her to be cast off by her husband and vilified throughout c ...Show more
A History of Crime: The Southern Double-Cross by Dinah Holman
$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
A Mistake by Carl Shuker
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for bla ...Show more
A Place to Stand by Helen McNeil
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Where is home? Can this be my place? These are the questions compelling the story set in small- town New Zealand. In 1956 Sandra McLeod and her British immigrant family come to Kawerau seeking a new life. But it was not an easy journey...When Sandra returs twenty years later she must confront ghosts of ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A State of Siege & The Rainbirds by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$38.00 (47% off)
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
"She is a giant among prose writers in English. It is impossible to call yourself well-read if you have not yet discovered Janet Frame"- Stephanie Dowrick, Sydney Morning HeraldHere at last is the opportunity for New Zealand readers to discover two of Janet Frame's most cinematic novels, highly readable ...Show more
A Striking Truth by Helen McNeil
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Leo Harris, union president at the mill in a one-industry town in the rural heartland, has a problem. So long as I live and breathe, he says. `I'll stand up to power. But the mill's CEO insists This was a showdown waiting to happen. 'It's 1986 and the entire town and its people are caught in the stalema ...Show more