The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The compelling story of Rose in the best-selling Denniston novels has drawn thousands of people to explore the abandoned settlement on the South Island's remote West Coast. The original inhabitants braved a 2000-feet-high and terrifyingly steep incline, a severe climate and scarce resources to eke out a living from the seams of coal on the Hill. Their unique lifestyle has been brought alive in DENNISTON ROSE and HEART OF COAL. It has also been documented in the rich collections of historic photographs and artefacts of the place and its people, collected here to illustrate these two moving and vivid novels. They take us from the 1880s, as the young Rose struggles to find a place for herself amongst the tough, makeshift community on the high plateau, and through into the nineteenth century, as Rose blossoms into adulthood and is torn between her love affairs with two men and the bleak landscape of Denniston. In this illustrated novel the raw truth of the photographic past illuminates the reader's own imagination. In addition images of past times are paired with those of today to highlight the change from crowded settlements to ghost town. ...Show more

Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Motel View by Forbes Williams

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

First published in 1992, Motel View was acclaimed by reviewers and shortlisted for the 1993 Wattie Award, but it remains Forbes Williams' only book (so far) and is something of a lost classic.

Faith Singer by Rosie Scott

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Faith Singer works in a run-down cafe in Sydney's King's Cross. She watches the world go by through the window and tries to offer some comfort to the street kids who stop by to talk. She is drawn to one kid in particular: Angel, a beautiful, painfully young drug addict.

Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame; Linda Grant (Editor, Introduction by)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a writer twice married).

Queen of Love and Other Stories by Rosie Scott

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Movie Dreams by Rosie Scott

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach

$12.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: near fine

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessn ess and uncaring. The book is a success, but not all of the attention it brings her is good. There are questions about a fire in the library at Princes Gate, her grandparents’ house, and about an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, has questions about a cold case. There are threatening phone calls. And a shadowy young man named Shift appears, bringing his shadows with him. Taryn, Jacob, Shift – three people are driven towards a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is an epic fantasy, intimate in tone. A book where hidden treasures are recovered; where wicked things people think they’ve shaken from their trails find their scent again. A book about beautiful societies founded on theft and treachery, and one in which dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and returns, set in London, Norfolk, and the Wye Valley; in Auckland, New Zealand; in the Island of Apples and Summer Road of the Sidhe; at Hell’s Gate; in the Tacit with its tombs; and in the hospitals and train stations of Purgatory. Cover: Catherine Nelson, Lost (2014). 'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book.' —Francis Spufford ‘The master is present. To read Knox on such a huge canvas – to be immersed in her worlds, wrapped in her intelligence and craft so completely – is an experience not be missed. Lessing, Le Guin, Knox – books where the best hearts meet the best minds meet the best imaginations are few and far between. The Absolute Book is a triumph of fantasy grounded in the reality and challenges of the moment we live in.’ —Pip Adam ...Show more

The Paper Nautilus by Michael Jackson

$16.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth since, for new life to begin, the angelically beau tiful but fragile shell that sustained a former life must be shattered. Michael Jackson has recourse to his ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, as well as autobiography and fiction, in exploring his theme. This book crosses and blends genres most engagingly. Beginning as a series of essays, it gradually morphs into a mesmerising work of the imagination in which the boundary between author and other becomes blurred, and the line between fact and fiction erased. ...Show more

Tikera or Children of the Queen of Oceania by Sygurd Wisniowski

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

The Birthday Burglar and a Very Wicked Headmistress by Margaret Mahy

$15.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good