The Cloud Leopard's Daughter by Deborah Challinor
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife | Reading Level: very good
In the gold fields of the colonies, some make a fortune, some make enemies and some make mistakes. For readers of Bryce Courtenay's POTATO FACTORY, Philippa Gregory and Tracy Chevalier. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III in Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The ne ...Show more
Dinner at Rose's by Danielle Hawkins
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In the wake of an unfortunate best-friend-and-boyfriend-caught-having-sex-in-a-chair incident, Jo Donnelly flees her civilised city life to take up a temporary job at the physiotherapy clinic in her small home town. Jo is ineptly assisted at work by a receptionist who divides her time between nail care ...Show more
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast by Danielle Hawkins
22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A wry, entertaining story about falling in love with a man whose shirtless picture adorns every second lunchroom wall and then doing your best when the relationship takes an unexpected turn ...
Black Ice Matter by Gina Cole
14.99 NZD
30.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical; sometimes it is metaphorical. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time; sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. In the stories, a woman is caught between tr ...Show more
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
The Party Line by Sue Orr
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Baxters do not know their place. On the first of June every year sharemilkers load their trucks with their families, pets and possessions and crawl along the highways towards new farms, new lives. They're inching towards that ultimate dream -- buying their own land. Fenward's always been lucky with ...Show more
Daylight Second by Kelly Ana Morey
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The incredible story, for the first time told in novel form, of Phar Lap, the racehorse that became a champion, and then a legend. And he's done it folks ...Phar Lap first, daylight second. In a new novel about the Australian race horse Phar Lap, award -winning writer, Kelly Ana Morey recreates the shor ...Show more
Amber (The Smuggler's Wife #2) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife Ser.
The second rivetting installment in The Smuggler's Wife series by one of our leading historical novelists. She was Maori, aged anywhere between three and five years old. Her dirty, matted hair hung past her shoulders, and sweet, heart-shaped little face was filthy. When Kitty Farrell is offered a trinke ...Show more
Kitty (The Smuggler's Wife #1) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife
When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies 1838, her suddenly impoverished mother is left with little more than the possibility of her beautiful daughter making a good marriage. But when Kitty is compromised by an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is destroyed. In disgrace, she is banished to t ...Show more
Band of Gold (The Smuggler's Wife #3) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife
Book three in the best-selling SMUGGLER'S WIFE series by one of our leading historical novelists. Kitty Farrell, headstrong and passionate as ever, is heartbroken over the apparent death by drowning of her husband Rian. Alone and grieving on the goldfields of Ballarat she turns to Rian's long-time shipm ...Show more
Deleted Scenes for Lovers by Tracey Slaughter
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The knowledge of everyone they're about to hurt is not an element easy to breathe in. They're the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That's your choice: this is the director's cut." Seventeen powerful stories of contemporary New Zealand life from a writer whose penetrating gaze reveals the ...Show more
Kauri in My Blood: The Diary of Laura Ann Findlay, the Coromandel, 1921-24 (My New Zealand Story) by Joanna Orwin
18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Laura Anne Findlay lives among giants - the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. When Laura's father becomes ill, the family is split up. Laura's mother takes a job as a bush cook in a kauri logging ...Show more