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
The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
It seemed a simple request. "Can you find my daughter who has run away?" But for professional gambler O'Malley, life isn't that simple. There is the murder of one of his poker partners, the attention of drug dealers, money launderers, the police, the gangs, and just to top it all off there is his intri ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
Puripāha: Te Pane Kaewa - Bulibasha in Te Reo Māori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #6 by Witi Ihimaera; Ruth Smith (Translator)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
He whakamāoritanga i te pukapuka o Puripāha nā Witi Ihimaera mō ētahi whānau hoariri e rua ki Te Tairāwhiti. Ko Puripāha te tapanga ka tukuna ki Te Pane Kaewa, ā, ki Te Tairāwhiti o Aotearoa e pakanga ana ētahi kokoro tokorua kia whakawahia hai pane. Ko Tamihana te upoko o te whānau toa o Mahana, he whā ...Show more
Dead Man's Axe by Bing Turkby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Guitar Store Mysteries | Reading Level: near fine