The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, and ...Show more
The Bone Bearer (#3 Telesa) by Lani Wendt Young
14.99 NZD
29.00 (48% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Telesa
The thrilling, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to The Telesa Series. Leila's selfless act at the closing of When Water Burns, unleashed the demonic fury of Pele the Fire Goddess and now Daniel must fight an epic battle to free the one he loves. Unlikely allies come to his aid as a group of troubled ...Show more
Mellons Bay by Suzanne Singleton
14.99 NZD
34.99 (57% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
MELLONS BAY is a story of relationships and family.It depicts life in colonial Auckland, change and adaptation in a new land, heartache, hope, love and loss. It is also a fictionalised account of the author’s great-great-grandparents. The book traces the story of a 19th century Irish family affected as ...Show more
A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
On the rugged West Coast of New Zealand, Golden Cove is more than just a town where people live. The adults are more than neighbours; the children, more than schoolmates. That is until one fateful summer - and several vanished bodies - shatters the trust holding Golden Cove together. All that's left are ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
2000ft Above Worry Level by Marra. Eamonn
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else 2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the sad part of the internet and ends at the top of a cliff face. This episodic novel is piloted by a young, anhedonic, gentle, slightly disassociated man. He has no money. He has a supportive but disintegrating ...Show more
Going Home by Carol Brungar
14.99 NZD
34.99 (57% off)
Category: NZ 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.
All Who Live On Islands by Rose Lu
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas to explo ...Show more
The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde
14.99 NZD
35.00 (57% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge ...Show more
The Lifers by Michael Steven
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond.A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a l ...Show more
State Highway One by Sam Coley
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is what I want to do. I want to go home. I want you to come with me. 'I want to go from here . . .' Finger on Cape Reinga. '. . . to here.' Finger at the bottom of Stewart Island, right at the bottom of the map. It's been years since Alex was in New Zealand, and years since he spent any one-on-one ...Show more
The History Speech by Mark Sweet
14.99 NZD
32.00 (53% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
It is 1960s provincial New Zealand, and a set of upper middle class families enjoy the good life together. But just under the surface of the conventionality, there are undercurrents. Adolescent Callum Gow's father is a bully, his mother is having an affair, and there are secrets about abuse, suicide and ...Show more