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
The Salted Air by Thom Conroy
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
"Tense and absorbing, this innovative novel brings a fresh approach to New Zealand writing. What happens when grief draws you to your partner's married brother? 28 year-old Djuna is without a foothold. The suicide of her partner has left her derailed and casting about for the joy she fears may be gone f ...Show more
The Sea on Our Skin by Madeleine Tobert
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Set in a tiny, traditional community on a Pacific island, this is the story of a marriage and a family, of great loves and great betrayals and how real island life is so much more than the blissful idyll Westerners see. Ioane Matate has been a traveller running away from his island since he was fifteen ...Show more
The Search for the Great Kiwi Yarn by Martin Crump
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A book of humorous stories with a distinctive Kiwi flavour, both true and definitely not true, compiled through Radio Pacific. Spinning a good yarn is a time-honoured tradition in this country, the stories about the larrikin, the local colourful identity, the tall tales and the fact is stranger than fic ...Show more
The Setup by Lizzy Dent
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
He thinks it's fate.She set the whole thing up.Mara wants to believe in fate - she's just never had a good reason to. Until now . . .After a case of mistaken identity, and the appearance of Joe - a gorgeous Austrian cellist - Mara has the chance to set up her own destiny. But life is complicated . . . T ...Show more
The Shadow World by P.C.Laird
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In February 2003, a young Japanese student was murdered by his fellows at an Auckland academy for overseas students. Thirteen men were accused of murder and granted bail. Most of the witnesses - students and staff members - left New Zealand, as well as the murdered studentÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂà...Show more
The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction by Alistair Fox
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The first critical study to investigate at length how masculine subjectivities are represented in contemporary New Zealand fiction. Notoriously self-contained and private, Kiwi men are often reluctant to talk about their personal feelings and embarrassed at the thought that any private emotional difficu ...Show more
The Singing Whakapapa by C K Stead
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Singing Whakpapais a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past.What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the ...Show more
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London #2) by Garth Nix
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Old World Police
Return to the enchanting world of ABIA winner The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, as a team of booksellers must fight to keep dangerous magic under cover before the stuff of legends destroys our world. From master world-builder Garth Nix, this riveting fantasy adventure is set in an alternate 1980s ...Show more
The Six Pack Three (NZ Book month 2008) by Various
$6.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The Six Pack is back! Six succulent segments of winning New Zealand writing to satisfy the appetite of the most ravenous reader. Sip quietly on a man's domestic alienation, spoon up some childhood pay, chew on the racial tension of '80s South Auckland, nibble at the cat-and-mouse game of a man and his t ...Show more
The Six Pack Two: Winning Writing from New Zealand Book Month by Neil Pardington
$6.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An anthology to commemorate NZ Book Month. Hundreds of writers chanced their luck in a competition. Celebrity judges and New Zealand readers made their pick. The odds are in your favour with this six-sided picture of contemporary New Zealand writing. "Six writers for six dollars. It's a good deal ...Show more
The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Fiona Farrell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Fiona Farrell's first novel - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books.Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura ...Show more