The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Fiona Farrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
"Fiona Farrell's first novel - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books.Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura ...Show more
The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
It seemed a simple request. "Can you find my daughter who has run away?" But for professional gambler O'Malley, life isn't that simple. There is the murder of one of his poker partners, the attention of drug dealers, money launderers, the police, the gangs, and just to top it all off there is his intri ...Show more
The Sound of Breaking Glass by Kirsten Warner
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
'I am driving up the Curran Street on-ramp and ahead of me Milk Bottle Man is dashing up the safety railing on the Harbour Bridge. He jumps onto the superstructure and runs up to the national flag. He is jumping from foot to foot and holding two figures in each hand – they must be the size of real peopl ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more
The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid by Catherine Robertson
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one knows 'happy endings' like romance novelist Darrell Kincaid. She's delivered eight of them to her readers with pleasure. But it's not to be with book number nine. In the act of adding the final full stop, Darrell has a revelation: it's not the ending that really matters but what comes next. Darre ...Show more
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library. For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
The Year of Falling by Janis Freegard
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"I am two people now. I have split. One of us will be seeing Caroline's fiance later this evening. The other is smiling politely. He is a square of dark chocolate, my morning espresso, a Kahlua cocktail on a Friday night. He is muscle, sinew, heart, blood. Pump and beat and flow. He makes me spin." When ...Show more
Through the Lonesome Dark by Paddy Richardson
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Blackball, West Coast, pre-World War I. Three youngsters; Pansy, Clem and Otto. Life had an idyllic surface with a far from idyllic underside for youngsters in this mining town. As a World War approaches, the harsh realities become apparent just because you are smart and motivated there is no certaint ...Show more
Tomorrow the World by M K Joseph
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dying Hitler dictates his memoirs to a personal aide whilst his top commanders plot against each other to see who will become the next Fuhrer. Meanwhile a small resistance group from England tries to smuggle a package across Europe that will help to smash the fascist rule, but are they in reality the ...Show more
Tough by Amy Head
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Men wake floating in their tents as a river scales its banks. Four girls gather around a Ouija board as a boy crouches at a window. A woman visits the man who took her prisoner as a girl. A boy decides to become a sinner as he tramps out of Reefton in the last of daylight. The remarkable stories in Toug ...Show more