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
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the secret police. An insight in to the post-communist regime of Albania.
The Madison Gap by Patricia Donovan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
You think you know someone. You accept that because you are siblings, raised in the same house in the same town by the same parents, you share a common view of the world, live by an identical set of values. But what if you are wrong? In Sydney, 2017, in the laid-back suburb of Glebe, Lexi Madison is liv ...Show more
Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton's brother arrives for a visit. Ford casts a ...Show more
Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. ...Show more
Utu - A story of love, hate, and revenge by Tua-o-rangi (Margaret Bullock)
$95.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nadejda is backpacking around New Zealand in the surreal haze of summer. Her encounters are comic and revealing - and often sexual. But Nadejda's tour is a deep and personal one; it is a journey into memory and family myth.
I Laugh Me Broken by Bridget Van der Zijpp
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ginny is feeling lighter and heavier at the same time. She’s just learned from her cousin about a devastating genetic inheritance – but the revelation has brought a new logic to her mother’s death many years before, and to her mother’s love. Leaving her fiancé in the dark, Ginny flees to Germany to rese ...Show more