Return to Blood (#2) by Michael Bennett
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Two murders. Two decades apart. One chance to get justice. Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start. The discovery of a skeleton in the dunes near her house changes everything. The remains are those of ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more
Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A novel about loss and light, about storytelling and the sea. The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. But how secure can this new home be, with th ...Show more
Secrets of the Land by Kate Mahony
37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
Imogen Maguire is bewildered when in 2018 she is accosted in a Melbourne Street by a mysterious stranger who says her grandfather in New Zealand needs her help. But her grandfather is dead, isn't he? A former journalist, Imogen decides to investigate and travels to Taranaki where she finds that her gran ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Audition by Pip Adam
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A finalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 - The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Audition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, the ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | 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
American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates ...Show more
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in reveng ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | 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
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | 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