Turbulent Threads by Karen McMillan
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Dunedin, 1890: Suddenly orphaned at the tender age of twenty, Greer Gillies is reduced to working as a humble servant at Larnach Castle, a far cry from the dreams she held before. As she struggles with the stark reality of grief, she finds her journey has only just begun as the decade proves transformat ...Show more
Undercover by Keith Bulfin
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Mexican drug cartels. Double agents. International money laundering. Gun fights. Massacres. This is a novel based on the life of Keith Bulfin - a conservative Melbourne father, pushing middle age - who is drawn into a world of drug smuggling and horrific violence in Mexico City. Keith is a stockbroker w ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
War Bride by Patricia Fenton
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Grim, uplifting and funny, this fictionalised family saga weaves memories and historical records stemming from real-life stories of a Welsh girl and a Kiwi boy who would never have met, if it wasn’t for Hitler.
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Alan Duff
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The grass'd been cleared away yesterday by her mother when they visited on the sixth anniversary of her death, Beth and what remained of her family; so the nameplate was clear even if the painted indentation of name, date of birth and date of death was almost bled of its white by the sun, the elements t ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.