When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
Necessary Secrets by Greg McGee
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Secrets tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult children. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70th birthday, the year ahead is told from four different points of view. A searing picture of New Zealand society t ...Show more
Sleeps Standing - Moetū by Witi Ihimaera; Hemi Kelly
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Ōrākau. During three days in 1864, 300 Māori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted in v ...Show more
Purakau: Maori Myths Retold by Maori Writers by Edited by Whiti Hereaka and Witi Ihimaera
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of pūrākau - Māori myths and legends - by contemporary Māori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . .Ancient Māori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, som ...Show more
The Bad Seed - The Night Book & Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now combined into a major TV drama, these two connected novels by award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw take an unflinching look at politics and power, contemporary New Zealand society and the arid morality of the privileged. In The Night Book, doctor and party donor Simon Lampton is drawn to Roza Hal ...Show more
Not Bad People by Brandy Scott
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Three friends, thirty years of shared secrets, one impulsive gesture .. and a terrible accident. When friendship goes bad, someone has to pay. For fans of Liane Moriarty and Robyn Harding. It's New Year's Eve. Three thirty-something women - Aimee, Melinda and Lou - best friends for decades, let off sky ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Description: It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. ...Show more
Call Me Evie by J.P. Pomare
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
DON'T TRUST HIM. IT WASN'T ME. IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ME. Meet Evie, a young woman held captive by a man named Jim in the isolated New Zealand beach town of Maketu. Jim says he's hiding Evie to protect her, that she did something terrible back home in Melbourne. In a house that creaks against the wind, E ...Show more
Julie and Kishore by Carol Jackson
0.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Julie - a Kiwi girl, a red headed, freckle faced, plain Jane longed to wear a white wedding dress and see her handsome groom waiting for her as she took her walk up the aisle. She was waiting to find her Mr Right - then she met and fell for Kishore, a boy from India who had been in New Zealand for two y ...Show more
Through the Lonesome Dark by Paddy Richardson
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Blackball, West Coast, pre-World War I. Three youngsters; Pansy, Clem and Otto. Life had an idyllic surface with a far from idyllic underside for youngsters in this mining town. As a World War approaches, the harsh realities become apparent just because you are smart and motivated there is no certaint ...Show more
Winged Helmet White Horse by Karyn Hay
14.99 NZD
35.00 (57% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the success of Karyn Hay’s historical fiction novel, The March of the Foxgloves, Karyn returns with Winged Helmet, White Horse – more reminiscent in style of her debut, Emerald Budgies. Set in contemporary London, Winged Helmet, White Horse is a darkly comic psychological drama. Tim has master ...Show more