Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Home Theatre by Anthony Lapwood
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young son battle an infestation of ants. A bass player is beset by equine hallucinations. A widow seeks a new home with a spare room for ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Mine by James Russell
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Taking in the mesmerising vision before me, I raised my arms towards the ocean like an idiot king acknowledging his subjects. My own surfing realm. Every single wave that broke on this reef was mine.”Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen
37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A novel about loss and light, about storytelling and the sea. The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. But how secure can this new home be, with th ...Show more
Double Jeopardy by Stef Harris
37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Watch out, Jack Reacher, here comes Frank Winter. Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yester-day ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...Show more