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
Uncle Trev and His Whistling Bull by Jack Lasenby
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Uncle Trev
It's the 1930s. Our storyteller is crook in bed, trying to get over a long sickness and wanting to go back to school, when Uncle Trev arrives to let Mum go out and do the shopping. Uncle Trev tells one story after another about the animals out on his farm and about his neighbour Gotta Henry. He also goe ...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
Wake by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes ap ...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
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
White Feathers (Children Of War Trilogy #2) by Challinor, Deborah
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Children of War Trilogy
In 1914, Tamar Murdoch’s brothelkeeping days are behind her. Her life is one of ease and contentment at Kenmore, a prosperous estate in the Hawkes Bay, as storm clouds over Europe begin casting long shadows. In this gripping second instalment of Deborah Challinor’s sweeping family saga, Tamar’s love for ...Show more
White Lies by Witi Ihimaera; Dana Rotberg
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful, prize-winning novella from the much-loved author of The Whale Rider, plus a moving screenplay, film stills and commentary on writing and movie making. A medicine woman a giver of life is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal consequences. When sh ...Show more