Chappy by Patricia Grace
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love sto ...Show more
Mad Men of the Mountains by Al Lester
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'The mountains have a habit of bringing out the best in people, despite the hardships that rain, hail and snow often throw in. In fact, it's only after a bit of adversity comes along that a person's true character comes to the fore. Those with a love for the hills take these things on the chin and just ...Show more
Rangatira by Paula Morris
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern ran ...Show more
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky he ...Show more
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The birth of a daughter - Kahu - breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale Rider after whom she was named. This magical and mythical novel tells of the conflict between tradition and heritage ...Show more
Ribbons of Grace by Maxine Alterio
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It focuses on the love affair between Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman, and Conran, an Orcadian stonemason. This touching novel opens with Ming Yuet at the graveside of her ...Show more
Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimeara
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A fine novel from Witi Ihimaera in which a great story about a feisty teenager is interwoven with a dazzling trip through Maori mythology. Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds ...Show more
Collected Stories: Patricia Grace ~ by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer. Also available as an eBook
Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Morrieson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It was a Friday when Wes and Cyril came to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker, but there was already other skullduggery afoot.
Cousins by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
The Keeper of Secrets: A Novel Of Love, Loss, and Survival by Julie Thomas
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1939. 14-year-old Simon Horowitz is awash in a world of music. His family owns a superb collection of instruments and at its heart is his father's 1742 Guarneri de Gesu violin. But all is lost when the Nazis march across Europe and Simon and his father and brother are sent to Dachau. In the pres ...Show more