Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
$37.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
TWO HOURS TO VANISH Ten people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone wherever they are on earth. But does it work? ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' – to go off-gri ...Show more
Landed by Sue McCauley
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
Letter to 'Oumuamua by James Norcliffe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this wry and witty collection -- addressed to the first interstellar object ever to be detected in our solar system -- James Norcliffe applies a cool, clear eye to human life on Earth. Our foibles and absurdities are laid bare, but so too is the human capacity for love, desire, sorrow and regret. Nor ...Show more
Lara's House by Tina Clough
$32.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Lara, thirty-nine and widowed, always thought she was good at assessing people’s motivations. Growing up with an alcoholic and abusive mother taught her early to be alert to signs of trouble coming her way, but now she begins to doubt her own judgement. When she finds herself in a relationship with a ...Show more
The Last Days of Joy by Anne Tiernan
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Meet the Tobin family ... Joy - the mother Unconscious in a hospital bed, Joy's latest act has thrown the family into turmoil Frances - the middle child Seemingly perfect wife and mother, Frances is having inappropriate dreams about an ex, and might be about to derail her whole life Conor - the protecto ...Show more
One of Those Mothers by Megan Nicol Reed
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
A raw domestic thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and The Slap. If you were gripped by Big Little Lies, you'll love One of Those Mothers. The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
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 Doctors Wife by Fiona Sussman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly inexplicable; Carmen Andino has a brain tumour. A ...Show more