The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | 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
The Collections by Patricia Donovan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | 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
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Landfall 243 - Autumn 2022 by Lynley Edmeades (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well asbiographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's bestwriters. There are reviews of the latest books, ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
Dead Man's Axe by Bing Turkby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Guitar Store Mysteries | Reading Level: near fine
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
Nor'east Swell by Aaron Topp
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
Eighteen-year-old Witi's father is listed as having abandoned his family and that's just how Witi sees it. But when he is on his surfboard, feeling the surge of the sea, he somehow feels close to him. He also knows his rock-star father was diagnosed as schizophrenic, and lately Witi has been wondering i ...Show more
Remember Me by Charity Norman
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
From the author shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for Crime Fiction, and for Best International Crime Fiction in the Ned Kelly Awards 'An atmospheric and emotional tale of family, mystery and love ... an extraordinarily talented storyteller.' Kelly Rimmer, author of bestselling ...Show more
Landfall 242: Spring 2021 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest boo ...Show more