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.
In Amber's Wake by Christine Leunens
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in New Zealand during the fast-changing, tumultuous 1980s era of the anti-nuclear movement, Springbok rugby tour protests, and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, this romantic drama is as unpredictable as it is powerful and heartfelt. Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend A ...Show more
Jungle Rock Blues by Nigel Cox
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Raised by gorillas in the wild jungles of New Zealand, scarred in battles with vicious giant wetas, seduced by a beautiful young scientist, discovered by Memphis record producer Sam Phillips and adored by millions – the dirt-to-dreams life story of Caliban is as legendary as his 30 number one hits. That ...Show more
Bluffworld by Patrick Evans
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' - so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he? Can we trust what we never quite knew about because we never quite got around to reading it in the first place? Is it safe to rely on what we ove ...Show more
Song for Rosaleen by Desmond Pip
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises importa ...Show more
Guilt by Charlotte Grimshaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Amongst Auckland's freightyards, where rusting ferries loom over squalid nightclubs and all kinds of human detritus finish up, runs Quay Street, populated by drunks, junkies, psychos and derelicts. For Maria Wallis and Marcus Klein, she a promising young lawyer looking for kicks, he a budding novelist i ...Show more
The Pink Jumpsuit - Short Fictions, Tall Truths by Emma Neale
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Emma Neale’s first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships. There are ...Show more
Risk by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Fletcher of the Bounty by Graeme Lay
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of Fletcher Christian, sailor, adventurer and mutineer of the HMS Bounty. On the 28th of April 1789, mutineer Fletcher Christian seized command of the ship HMS Bounty from its captain, William Bligh. Fletcher of the Bounty is a fictional account of the Tahitian voyage, the mutiny and its myste ...Show more
The Time Lizard's Archaelogist by Trisha Hanifin
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
“Sometimes I think I’ve spent my life learning how to change gear, to shift from one state of consciousness to another. And sometimes I think I’ve fallen into a no-man’s land, and I’ve spent my life wandering, ghost-like and grieving, unable to find my way home.” 2016. Auckland psychologist, Jason Win ...Show more
Double Helix by Eileen Merriman
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Would you want to know what awaits you? Would you want to be in control of your life . . . and death? What would you do for love? 'Sooner or later, willingly or unwillingly, he's going to leave you.' The words cut deep. Emily knows Jake is not like his father; he'd never leave her willingly. But if he h ...Show more