The Song Journey by T. E. Scott
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's not a gull-winged De-Lorean but a seagull-attracting Queenstown steamer Earnslaw that accidental time-traveller Julia MacAllistair finds herself on, moments after sitting down to play an old piano in a dusty Rochester, NY, attic. How and why is a New York girl being flung halfway around the world a ...Show more
The Sound of Breaking Glass by Kirsten Warner
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'I am driving up the Curran Street on-ramp and ahead of me Milk Bottle Man is dashing up the safety railing on the Harbour Bridge. He jumps onto the superstructure and runs up to the national flag. He is jumping from foot to foot and holding two figures in each hand – they must be the size of real peopl ...Show more
The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
$28.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1904, the young lepidopterist Thomas Edgar arrives home from a collecting expedition in the Amazon. His young wife Sophie is unprepared for his emaciated state and, even worse, his inability - or unwillingness - to speak. Sophie's genteel and demure life in Edwardian England contrasts starkly with th ...Show more
The Spaces Between by Russell Haley
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jervis Kraik is beaten up and stabbed in Auckland's Fort Street. He wakes up in Whare Moemoea, a dubious medical institution on Auckland's North Shore. But was Jervis really attacked? And is Moira, Kraik's nurse, there to help him or to tempt him into ...what? Haley's new novel, his fifth, is an atmosph ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects the stories from The New Land : A Picture Book (1990) and the stories added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own-adventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Un ...Show more
The Straight Banana by Tim Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
New York, summer of 2007. The Iraq War still rages. Domestic terror threats abound. The iPhone is about to launch. But the biggest story is straight bananas flooding the city, overtaking crack and heroin. Rich or poor, no one can resist peelin' straight. Is it a plot? Immigrants are being rounded up. F ...Show more
The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid by Catherine Robertson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one knows 'happy endings' like romance novelist Darrell Kincaid. She's delivered eight of them to her readers with pleasure. But it's not to be with book number nine. In the act of adding the final full stop, Darrell has a revelation: it's not the ending that really matters but what comes next. Darre ...Show more
The Transformation by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the 1980's a wig-maker by the name of Dubois flees his native Paris in order to excape his past, and settles in the small town of Tampa, Florida. He takes on a new name, Lucien Goulet, so that he cannot be traced. This is Catherine Chidgey's third novel which is an extraordinary historical adventure ...Show more
The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Respectable appearances can hide the blackest of secrets. The Vanishing Act is a spicy tale of intrigue set in 1960s New Zealand, where society¿s constraints and the laws of the day made outcasts of lesbians and prostitutes. This is Jen Shieff¿s second novel, a standalone sequel to The Gentlemen¿s Club ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Plans for the Newtoun community’s Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra’s practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi’s trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty … and Ms Ropata’s juggling it all because everyone wants in. There’ll be curry and cake, ka ...Show more