The Talkback Man by David Ballantyne

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Let Me Be Frank - Comics 2010-2019 by Sarah Laing

$20.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Novels | Reading Level: very good

Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next installmen t about Sarah's parenting fails and successes, writing, her obsession with Katherine Mansfield, her family's history, pet mice, sex, clothes and more. Let Me Be Frank is a witty, whip-smart comic collection that is ever disarmingly frank. ...Show more

Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good

When Theo and Rachel Matheson head for Auckland to spend a fortnight with their uncle and aunt, they are prepared for the usual entertainments that the city can provide. Both are twins. Apart from both having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think.But their relatives have cu rious neighbours who seem to take an unnatural interest in the red-haired twins. And once they meet the extraordinary Mr Jones, their holiday begins to take on a course of its own.Beneath the supposedly extinct volcanoes that surround the city giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep of several thousand years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Time is running out. The Matheson twins, chosen to oppose the monsters, know themselves to be as fallible as any other eleven-year-olds...Under the Mountain has been made into an eight-part Television New Zealand production, produced by Tom Finlayson and directed by Chris Bailey, with Kirsty Wilkinson and Lance Warren starring as Rachel and Theo. ...Show more

Time & The Forest by Peter Hooper

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

People of the Long Water by Peter Hooper

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Time and the Forest Trilogy | Reading Level: good

A Song in the Forest by Peter Hooper

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Time and the Forest Trilogy | Reading Level: good

The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! Identical twins only look the same… Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness that sets them apart. Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of open-hearted Summer's seemingly never-ending good fortune, including her perfect husband, Adam. Called to Thailand to help sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris nurtures her own secret hopes for what might happen on the journey. But when she unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean, everything changes. Now is her chance to take what she's always wanted - the idyllic life she's always coveted. But just how far will she go to get the life she's dreamed about? And how will she make sure no one discovers the truth? Written with the chilling suspense of The Girl on the Train and Before I Go to Sleep, The Girl in the Mirror is an addictive thriller about greed, lust, secrets and deadly lies. ...Show more

Something Childish But Very Natural by Katherine Mansfield

$6.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Loves | Reading Level: very good

Henry is naive and has never experienced love. When he meets golden-haired Edna in a train carriage, however, his world changes forever. But the intensity of their feelings threatens their innocence, and Edna knows she is too young to leave her childhood behind. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love... This selection first published 2007. ...Show more

Gulf by Barry Crump

$20.00 NZD

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

Pounamu Pounamu Maori Edition by Witi Ihimaera

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Stonedogs

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction

In between drug deals and binge-drinking, reckless driving and street fights, the delinquents of the Brotherhood wage the holiest of wars. Yes, they will derail the Juggernaut before it can suicide . . . or have a ball trying at least. But when one of them falls prey to Roto-Vegas gang members, the cult ural terrorists mobilise in earnest. Revenge takes them on a road-trip - a coming of age from hell. It is a journey to the corners of a collective psyche peopled by nightmares as real as the headlines of today, a New Zealand the tourists and executives had better pray they never stumble upon. Alone and gut-shot, the Juggernaut closing in, the Brotherhood will rally for an audacious final stand, a last ditch fight for their minds and their lives . . . and perhaps for the future of us all. Craig Marriner is New Zealand's response to Irvine Welsh and Quentin Tarantino. His first novel will make you cringe and shudder, then wet yourself laughing. Its raw and scathing prose breaks new ground against the backdrop of a world-view as chilling as the nightly news. Rest assured, Stonedogs will soon be banned from every classroom in the land. ++ Winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction 2002 ++ ++ Winner New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction, 2002 ++ "it’s a terrific relentless rock ‘n roll roller coaster of a read… it’s blackly funny, it’s disarming, it has a wink in its eye, and it bleeds all over the place. It has extended riffs about gang behaviour, race relations, greed and rampant consumerism and just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do. Its fertility is simply breathtaking. Most of all, Stonedogs is a true New Zealand original." - Witi Ihimaera (Covener of the judging panel, Montana Books Awards 2002; Author) Paperback ...Show more

Jacko Moran Sniper by Ken Catran

$6.00 NZD

Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good

"Gallipoli was the first good thing that happened to me." World War I turned Jacko Moran from a sullen, street-fighting slum kid, with a brutal alcoholic father, into a fearless soldier, a decorated war hero and a man who commanded the utmost respect. "They were the only four years I really lived," Jac ko reflects from his death bed in Wellington Hospital, 25 years later, when the effects of mustard gas, hard living and the constand running from nightmares have sucked the life from him. Unable to settle after the war, Jacko never reached the heights expected from someone of his calibre. In this often grim, but always compelling, portrayal of a terrible war, Jacko Moran, a peripheral character in Letters From the Coffin Trenches, looks back on the full horrors of the Flanders campaign with a perverse pride. He was the man the enemy feared, the kingpin sniper, the ace hand-to-hand fighter. For ages 13 and older. "The war didn't kill me but the peace sure did." ...Show more