The Jacaranda House by Deborah Challinor
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The Restless Years | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her bra ...Show more
What Sort of Man and Other Stories by Breton Dukes
14.99 NZD
30.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been stood down for accessing porn on a school computer wants to re-establish contact with his teenage daughter. A carer out on a day trip is desperate to find a working toilet for his adult charge. What Sort of Man ...Show more
All the Way to Summer - Stories of Love and Longing by Fiona Kidman
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy. Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love ...Show more
Fake Baby by Amy McDaid
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Fake Baby is a tender and funny exploration of the power of words, our perception of resilience and what it means to be real. Nine Days. One City. Three Oddballs. Stephen's dead father is threatening to destroy the world. If Stephen commits the ultimate sacrifice and throws himself into the harbour, he ...Show more
The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this highly entertaining novel, Edith Wharton is variously reimagined- as a host in the afterlife, a historical figure in a modern novella, and as an elusive presence in the pages of her own writing. But when a lifelong secret is exposed, it's almost too shocking to be true. Hugely acclaimed during h ...Show more
Magic and Makutu (#6 Aotearoa) by David Hair
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Aotearoa
For Matiu Douglas, apprentice tohunga, the ultimate test of his skill, courage and magical prowess awaits. Hine-nui-te-po, Goddess of Death, is calling and from all across Aotearoa, those who dream of power and immortality are gathering for the struggle. Mat and his friends must face old enemies and ne ...Show more
Justice and Utu (#4 Aotearoa) by David Hair
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Aotearoa
Matiu Douglas' father Tama is a defence lawyer, a job that has cost him the love of his wife. Mat is used to his father's job creating stress, but when Tama takes on a high-profile case in magical Aotearoa, the defence of Donna Kyle and her deadly father Asher Grieve, family tensions run high.Then Asher ...Show more
In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what's expected of her. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. She isn't fitting in; she doesn't want to stay. What ...Show more
The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Five strangers, one cafe - and the day that everything changed. A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for five strangers whose paths cross in a London cafe - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation th ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Korero Series 1 | Reading Level: very good
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrator ...Show more
Tiny Pieces of Us by Nicky Pellegrino
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
My heart is less than 1% of my body, it weighs hardly anything; it is only a tiny piece of me, yet it is the part everyone finds most interesting. Vivi Palmer knows what it's like to live life carefully. Born with a heart defect, she was given a second chance after a transplant, but has never quite dare ...Show more
Josephine's Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France. France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napo ...Show more