Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
Joe Victim by Paul Cleave
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The internationally best-selling author of Collecting Cooper and The Laughterhouse brings back one of his most infamous characters, the Christchurch Carver, in this gripping thriller. Joe Middleton, a.k.a the Christchurch Carver, is in jail awaiting trial for a slew of murders he says he didn't commit. ...Show more
Jungle Rock Blues by Nigel Cox
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Raised by gorillas in the wild jungles of New Zealand, scarred in battles with vicious giant wetas, seduced by a beautiful young scientist, discovered by Memphis record producer Sam Phillips and adored by millions – the dirt-to-dreams life story of Caliban is as legendary as his 30 number one hits. That ...Show more
Kainga - People, Land and Belonging (BWB Texts) by Paul Tapsell
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
Is New Zealand ready to not just tick the Treaty partnership box, but actually open it and accept that Māori community-driven world views concerning their whenua is equally valid science, capable of underpinning, guiding and reshaping agricultural science and farming practices? This book calls for poli ...Show more
Karearea ( Kārearea ) (BWB Texts) by Māmari Stephens
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
My journey into law and mātauranga is one more defined by absence, understanding of loss, whakamā, accident and a sense of coming in from the cold, than by any programmatic acquisition of expertise. This collection of writing from Māmari Stephens (Te Rarawa) travels through introspection, loss and doub ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Kimble Bent Malcontent - The wild adventures of a runaway soldier in old-time New Zealand by Chris Grosz
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Chris Grosz captures the adventuring life of Kimble Bent sailor, soldier, deserter, outlaw and Hauhau slave in a dramatic graphic novel. After signing up for the Queen's shilling, Bent was sent to New Zealand in the 1860s, on the eve of the tumultuous Taranaki land wars. An act of defiance saw him deser ...Show more
Kind by Stephanie Johnson
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Super yachts and stereotypes, #MeToo blunders and post-apocalyptic bolt holes, locking down and locking up - a thoroughly entertaining novel!High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like 'a black exclamation mark on a white page, Kiwi-noir face down in the snow'. Is he still alive? Th ...Show more
Kiss Of Death by Stephen Tester
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
“All it takes to earn a place at the table is a little help from the deadliest epidemic since the plague.” It’s 1918, in a Wellington that few people would recognise today, and two major events are about to collide: the signing of the Armistice to end World War I, and the soldier-borne plague we now ca ...Show more
Landed by Sue McCauley
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collectio ...Show more
Landscape with Solitary Figure by Shonagh Koea
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A novel about the transporting power of the imagination, about overcoming your past, and about the beauty of a solitary life. Ellis sits in her house writing, looking out of her window, gardening and walking by the sea. While telling of her current life, she is slowly edging towards and away from her me ...Show more