Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Thousands flee central Wellington as a far too common 'once in a century' storm descends. Roads are closed and all rail is halted. For their own safety, city workers are told that they must go home early. Sita is a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee living in the Hutt Valley. She's just had a call from her boss. ...Show more
Somebody Loves Us All by Damien Wilkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Speech therapist Paddy knows better than most how our speech marks us and shapes our destiny, but even he is totally unprepared and unable to cope when his mother Teresa wakes up one morning speaking in a heavy French accent. Deeply moving and disarmingly funny, Speech Marks is Damien Wilkins' finest no ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
State Highway One by Sam Coley
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This is what I want to do. I want to go home. I want you to come with me. 'I want to go from here . . .' Finger on Cape Reinga. '. . . to here.' Finger at the bottom of Stewart Island, right at the bottom of the map. It's been years since Alex was in New Zealand, and years since he spent any one-on-one ...Show more
Strays and Waifs (A Chasing Ghosts Mystery) by Mandy Hager
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: A Chasing Ghosts Mystery
Cli-fi writer and climate activist Bella Goodfellowwants to save the world, but how can she do thatwhen she can’t even save herself? Forced from her hideaway after a landslide swallows it whole, shefinds temporary accommodation with her publisher’selderly aunt on the Kāpiti Coast. But lilac-eyedFreyja ...Show more
Swimming in the Dark by Paddy Richardson
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Serena Freeman is a 15-year-old girl with her life ahead of her. From a dysfunctional family on the wrong side of the law, she is determined to break the mould, escape the prejudices of her community and attend university. That's until the law comes looking for her. Overcome by a force she can't fight a ...Show more
Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer ...Show more
Take Two by Danielle Hawkins
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Sometimes, you have to revisit your past to find your future. Laura and Doug were together for ages. Their breakup was just one of those things - she wanted children, he didn't, no hard feelings - at least not until, with their relationship barely cold in its grave, he got his new girlfriend pregnant. N ...Show more
Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson by Jack Remiel Cottrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
With a crisp insouciance and gliding charm, Jack Cottrell's fiery, fey, finely-tuned fictions leap from sci-fi to fantasy, comedy to horror, literary realism to romance, and to hybrids of all of these.Featuring sport, friendship, love, health, family, climate change, artificial intelligence, desire, mag ...Show more
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Good-very good
"Where love is your only escape .... 1911- Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet It is a dan ...Show more
The Battle of Crete (Rabbit Hunter #2) by Christopher Worth
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: The Rabbit Hunter II | Reading Level: near fine
If one considers what happened in war-time Greece in 1941 to have been the curtain-raiser, then the subsequent battle in Crete can best be described as the main event. This sequel to the well-received The Rabbit Hunter again focuses on Second Lieutenant Neil Rankin and his platoon of fictional soldiers ...Show more