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The Shag Incident by Stephanie Johnson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Duetz Medal, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly executed. Twenty years on the truth is revealed, the truth about the deception that started it all and the seemingly disparate characters involved: Jasper, currently in ...Show more
Blindsight - A Novel by Maurice Gee
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Father taught us how not to love...' So begins Maurice Gee's latest novel of 'Wellington noir' (The Times). Narrated by Alice, as an old woman looking back over the mistakes and tragedy of her family history, Blindsight is a corruscating look at the evil we are capable of inflicting upon each other. At ...Show more
Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
Mango's Kiss by Albert Wendt
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own. A fictional world focused on Samoa and New Zealand and reaching out to the centres of the world, a world inhabited by the richest menagerie of characters in Pacific fiction, characters whose lives a ...Show more
The Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
Anno Domini 2000 or Woman's Destiny by Julius Vogel
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Before women even got the vote, this novel prophesied women presidents, prime ministers and leaders of the opposition. Before the Wright Brothers or Richard Pearse flew, it predicted global air travel. Before the Labour Party, it advocated social welfare and subsidised housing, and before the computer a ...Show more
Dad Art by Damien Wilkins
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It’s Wellington, now. Acoustic Engineer Michael Stirling’s old life is gone. He’s on the dating scene, learning te reo Maori, living in an upmarket apartment complex, and visiting his father who has dementia. Wearing his online dating disguise, Michael meets Chrissie, the widowed mother of a young son. ...Show more
Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology by Paul Mountfort & Rosslyn Prosser (eds)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Scorchers is the first ever pan-Australasian anthology of climate fiction writings. Including pieces both by some of Australia and New Zealand’s most celebrated authors, its sixteen contributors have responded to a deceptively simple provocation: How can writers—and by implication literature—respond wit ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Lovelock including The Man From Nowhere - Berlin Diary by James McNeish
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering commentary on Lovelock's death. Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous ...Show more
Acid Song by Bernard Beckett
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
2009 Montana Book Awards FICTION Category Runner-up It's election day in New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist's political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community. A staffroom argument flares up - does a playground fight warrant a student's expul ...Show more
The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. /b>here has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact a ...Show more