The Jigsaw Chronicles by Kevin Ireland
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Deep within our everday lives are existences that might be possible. They seem to wait only for a decisive change of cirumstance or imagination to become reality.Brook is a lawyer. He is secure, modest and comfortable - a man without huge expectations or ambitions. Then one day he enters a misty doorway ...Show more
The Kindness of Your Nature by Linda Olsson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Set on the desolate, moody coastline near Kawhia, this beautifully written and insightful novel paints a warm and sensitive portrait of the many forms love takes - the destructive, the forbidden and, ultimately, the healing. Marion Flint lives alone on the wild west coast of New Zealand's North Island. ...Show more
The Lagoon & Other Stories/ The Pocket Mirror by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These stories, when first published, won the Hubert Church Award, saving Janet Frame from an impending lobotomy. Now, for the first time, they appear in the same book as her only published collection of poems. This is a beautifully produced volume that offers an ideal introduction to her work; a must-ha ...Show more
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-respected authors. 'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.' William Ja ...Show more
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Narrated by one of the funniest, wisest literary observers of all time this is a brilliant, charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
The Last Time We Spoke by Fiona Sussman
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
On the night that Carla Reid plans on celebrating her wedding anniversary with her husband Kevin and their grown son Jack, their New Zealand farmstead has never felt more like home. But when Ben Toroa and another aspiring gang member brutally force their way into the house with robbery and more on their ...Show more
The Last Time We Spoke by Fiona Sussman
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
One mild summer evening in rural New Zealand the lives of Carla Reid, a middle-aged farmer's wife, and Ben Toroa, an illiterate teen, brutally collide. Neither will be the same again, their futures forever linked. In the bleak aftermath of this home invasion, The Last Time We Spoke traces both Carla and ...Show more
The Legend of Winstone Blackhat by Tanya Moir
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A powerfully realised novel that weaves the past with the present and the real with the imaginary. In Winstone's imagination, the Kid and his partner ride through the Wild West on the trail of their quarry. In Winstone's actual life, he's had to abandon his 'partner' and is hiding out in the tough lands ...Show more
The Lie of the Land by Rhonda Bartle
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This is the story of one woman's journey into her past, her struggle to overcome the pain of it, how it has shaped her present and how it changes her future. A phone call one morning jolts forty-five-year-old Cass McClellan out of her successful, suburban family life. Suddenly she needs to find Leo, the ...Show more
The Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, this strikingly original novel is at turns a gothic tale of a father's obsession, a castaway story worthy of a Boy's Own adventure and a thorny remembrance of past tragedies. The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if ...Show more
The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Good
A book of depth and richness that will repay close reading on several counts: it is at once vigorous social history, an intensive course in Maoritanga, and an imaginative study of human relationships that remains highly readable and entertaining throughout. Winner of the Wattie Book of the Year 1986, an ...Show more