Author: | Fiona Kidman |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Finalist for the 2019 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards |
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. H... read more
Author: | Paddy Richardson |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
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 a... read more
Author: | M K Joseph |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
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 sm... read more
Author: | Amy Head |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | Near Fine |
Awards: | NZ POST BOOK AWARDS 2014 - NZSA best first book Winner |
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.
... read more
Author: | Janet Frame |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | Near Fine |
'The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky.' A weekend away from home. But where is home? Is it London? Or New Zealand? Grace Cleave, expatriate novelist living in London, is holidaying in the north of England. Her host asks why she has aban... read more
Author: | Geoff Vause |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Cristal66 goes shopping online and gets more than she bargained for...much more. Like the famous auction site itself, Trade Me - The Novel sucks you in and wonâÂÂt let you go until the action is over.Extremely funny and very topical, Geoff Vause captures the buzz of the internet traders world.
Author: | Sue McCauley |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Author: | Jack Lasenby |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Series: | Uncle Trev |
Awards: | Finalist Junior Fiction New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2013 |
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 fa... read more
Author: | Keith Bulfin |
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.... read more
Author: | Rachel Kerr |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
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 myst... read more
Author: | Elizabeth Knox |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
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 circ... read more
Author: | Alan Duff |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Winner of Montana New Zealand Book of the Year Award Fiction Category 1997. Shortlisted for APA Design Awards: Random House Best Designed B-Format Book 1998. |
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... read more