The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. /b>here has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact a ...Show more
The Paris of the East by Karen McMillan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Paris of the East is a sweeping epic of love and war, courage and survival, sacrifice and loss. Warsaw, 1939. Four friends picnic on a brilliant summer's day and celebrate an engagement, aware of the rumbles of war, but hopeful that in any conflict Poland will have the upper hand. But only months la ...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
The Paua Tower by Coral Atkinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A Tarot-reading Frenchwoman and a paua-shell memorial to a dead soldier play an important role in Coral Atkinson's latest novel. Set in a central North Island town during the 1930s Depression, THE PAUA TOWER explores the relationship of a group of people struggling to survive and make sense of a bitter ...Show more
The Peastick Girl by Susan Hancock
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Is she trying to seduce him? He doesn't know. Though not exactly distant she seems far away. The fire they have lit is young looking, crowned with green flames; it sends its light onto the red tiles around the fireplace, each with its upright white lily, like a martyr's emblem. The Peastick Girl tel ...Show more
The Phoenix Song by John Sinclair
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
"The central character is a Chinese violinist whose parents are local Communist Party leaders but who was partly raised by White Russian musicians with links to the composer Dmitri Shostakovich" -Publisher information A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often d ...Show more
The Pink Jumpsuit - Short Fictions, Tall Truths by Emma Neale
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Emma Neale’s first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships. There are ...Show more
The Plays of Bruce Mason - A Survey by John Smythe
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bruce Mason (1921 1982) was a playwright by vocation and widely regarded as New Zealand's best. Yet while The Pohutukawa Tree, The End of the Golden Weather and Awatea have enjoyed great success, his seven other full length plays have unaccountably been ignored. His four award-winning short plays, a com ...Show more
The Plumb Trilogy Plumb Meg Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Plumb is one of Maurice's most admired and loved novels. The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zea ...Show more
The Pretty Delicious Cafe by Danielle Hawkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Food, family and fresh beginnings. On the outskirts of a quiet hamlet on the New Zealand coast, Lia and her friend Anna work serious hours running their restored 'villa' cafe. The busy season, they know, is just around the corner. There are plenty of other things distracting them too. Anna is about to m ...Show more
The Quiet Spectacular by Laurence Fearnley
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Funny and moving, this novel subverts notions of 'man vs. wild' while showcasing women's strength and purpose, and the power of friendship and laughter. Loretta is a school librarian, who embarks on compiling The Dangerous Book for Menopausal Women while waiting to collect her son from after-school act ...Show more
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the aftermath of a high-school sex scandal caused by a teacher's affair with an underaged student, a group of teenage girls becomes the focus of public scrutiny. After a local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a play, the boundaries between private and public, and fact and fiction, begin ...Show more