Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfrie ...Show more
Lost Souls by Jenny Haworth
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Secondhand. The Anglo-Boer War is, for New Zealanders, the forgotten war. Yet over 10,000 New Zealand soldiers recruited in 10 contingents left New Zealand for South Africa between 1899-1902. Most arrived too late to fight in the major battles. Instead they were used in the 'dirty war', rounding up Boe ...Show more
Love & Money by Greg McGee
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Welcome to 1987. It's boom time on the sharemarket and money is flying around the stratosphere just waiting to fall into the hands of those with the nerve to reach high enough to grab it. Mike, a middle-aged romantic lead with a clapped out VW and three kids to different mothers is not amongst them. Whi ...Show more
Love and Money - The Writer's Cut by Greg McGee
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Film directors get to re-release with the changes they wish they had made. That is called The Director's Cut. Now, Greg McGee has done the same to his 2012 novel. Welcome to Love & Money: The Writer's Cut.New Zealand is in the middle of a share-market boom, there is an election coming up, a commune ...Show more
Man Alone by John Mulgan
$13.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
'That's Auckland, mate - the Queen of the North.' 'The what?' 'The Queen of the North. That's what they call it - in Auckland. This is God's own, this country.' Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our writing for decades. John Mulgan's vision of New Zealand society as detached and unsentim ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
Mansfield with Monsters : The Untold Stories of a New Zealand Icon by Matt Cowens, Debbie Cowens and Katherine Mansfield
$12.50 NZD
$25.00 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand Fiction
• Mansfield with Monsters is a collection of Mansfield’s short stories that were uncovered by Dr Marcus Walker. • These stories are as they were originally written – with vampires, aliens, and sea monsters – but never published. • A brilliant introduction to Mansfield’s work, ideal for those who might o ...Show more
March to the Sound of the Guns by Ray Grover
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
During World War I New Zealand shipped one hundred thousand young men halfway round the world to fight at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Eighteen thousand were killed - a death rate of nearly one in five. Thousands more were maimed physically and emotionally. The men had gone with the encouragement of ...Show more
Marlborough Man (#1 Nick Chester) by Alan Carter
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise. Unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own ...Show more
Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more