Going Home by Carol Brungar
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
When Kiwi nurse Ronnie McIlroy volunteers to spend twelve months nursing in a South Vietnamese hospital in 1967, she’s ill-prepared for the poverty-stricken country, the people, or the impact it has. Wonderful tale of love, hope, and courage in the face of adversity.
Going West by Maurice Gee
$13.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has ...Show more
Good Sons: A Novel of the Great War by Greg Hall
$32.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In early 1914 Frank Wilson and his two close friends, Tom Davis and Robert Sutherland, are growing up in Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The coming war in Europe arouses the hopes and dreams of a generation of young men. The pressure becomes irresistible and one by one the boys become soldier ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lloyd Jones, author of the bestselling Mister Pip, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has delivered a poignant tale of a mother's quest to be united with her child. Hand Me Down World tells the story of a nameless Afric ...Show more
Hang on a Minute Mate (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
$13.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
This novel was Barry Crump's sequel to the bestselling A Good Keen Man. The main character is Sam Cash, an engaging, yarn-spinning vagabond, who takes young Jack Lilburn under his wing on a roundabout journey. The pair drift from one job to another - forestry, horse-breaking, fencing, mustering, farming ...Show more
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Heartland by Jenny Pattrick
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Heart-warming and compulsive reading, this is an entertaining, lively and moving novel from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. 'Donny Mac was released at Eastertime about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good.' After a short stint in prison on trumped-up char ...Show more
Heloise by Mandy Hager
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably cros ...Show more
Here Upon the Tide by Blair McMillan
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
When Amir’s city in Syria is bombed as civil war erupts, his father makes a fateful decision. Amir soon finds himself on a perilous journey by land and sea, with little hope of reaching his destination. Milly is still reeling from the aftermath of earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch. Her only r ...Show more
His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime. Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart - his father accidently burned down ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more