Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't care much about them. Kauri embarks on a journey into his father's past, to come to terms with the trauma he's experienced in his short life, and to break the cycle of violence he fears perpetuating as he ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more
El Flamingo by Nick Davies
$31.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
With no role in sight and nothing to lose, actor Lou Galloway leaves Los Angeles and heads to Mexico to drown his sorrows in cheap mezcal. But, after a round too many, he soon ends up at a grandiose wedding in the mansion of internationally wanted crime lord, Diego Flores, where Lou is mistaken for a ro ...Show more
Shadow Over Edmund Street by Suzanne Frankham
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Edwina's death is brutal, a swift and silent killer who leaves no clues. Her murder seems unsolvable until a casual comment sends Inspector Alex Cameron and his seasoned team trawling through the dead woman's childhood. Raised in a poverty-scarred part of Auckland, Edwina was a battler. Life revolved ar ...Show more
Howling In The Wilderness by Diana Harris
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
This lively historical novel is a compelling account of the people, events, and the forces driving them that surrounded the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Dice by Claire Baylis
$36.99 NZD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
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