Belief by Stephanie Johnson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
In 1899 William McQuiggan leaves his young Australian wife and new-born twins in New Zealand and travels to America in search of God. Belief is the story of his journey and of his marriage to Myra, who follows him from Auckland, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and to Zion City, Illinois. With each leg of the j ...Show more
A Place to Pass Through and Other Stories by Edith Campion
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Resolutions by Karen Zelas
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Rebecca Eaton | Reading Level: near fine
The Life of De'Ath by Majella Cullinane
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this accomplished first novel, the elusive narrator - no less than Mephistopheles - recounts Theodore De'Ath's life before and during the Great War. Traumatised by a family tragedy, Theodore immerses himself the Inferno, Paradise Lost and Faust and is captivated by the Underworld. The story, which be ...Show more
Cutting Loose by Jacqueline Fahey
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A move to the tropics fails to provide a distraction from marital problems. They get worse.
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painted feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her pulse just couldn't help but kick back in to life; her hip bones, her red knuckles, the soft skin of her thighs, and her fine crac ...Show more
Treasure by Elizabeth Knox
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. American preacher Deane Omo flies in to the Wellington mission of his family's Charismatic church to heal the sick, and to bring his cousin Mayhew Quitman back into the fold. In a flat high above the city, Kath and Martin play out the dif ...Show more
The Final Call by Jen Shieff
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Buckle up for The Final Call, Jen Shieff’s third book, a standalone sequel to The Gentleman’s Club and The Vanishing Act – both finalists in the Ngaio Marsh Awards. It’s 1979. Auckland is on the brink. Fashion and music are bursting through previous boundaries but prostitution is still illegal and male ...Show more
Among the Cinders by Maurice Shadbolt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This elusive coming-of-age novel is set in New Zealand and forwarded with a definition: "CINDER: hard, crumbly substance which remains after the inflammable quality of coal, coke, wood has been destroyed by burning but when they have not been reduced to ashes." The cinders of Mr. Shadbolt's book are pre ...Show more
Coma by William Direen
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The actual present of this novella is a rock concert in Seattle, but seventeen years are contained in that present. William Direen explores pleasures and regrets, hopes and anxieties. It is his fifth book of fiction since he gave up performance for writing in 1997.
Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more