Daughter Buffalo by Janet Frame
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dr Talbot Edelman is obsessed by the mechanics of dying. Not his own death, for he is still a young man, but by the memory of his grandfather. He changes his speciality to Death Studies and by operations on his dog, Sally, establishes her as an honorary person. When the dog dies and his girlfriend leave ...Show more
Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Choo Woo by Lloyd Jones
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Baby talk. A child's game. But the words take on a sinister new meaning when employed by Ben Strang in the seduction of his de facto wife's twelve-year-old daughter. This novel is the searing account of the outcome of perverted desires and betrayal - and of the spreading ripples of damage and deceit ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island emabattled by internal strife. Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland-all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolho ...Show more
All Part of the Game - The Stories of A P Gaskell by A. P. Gaskell
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Dating from the 1940s, these short stories show Gaskell's style - vigorously idiomatic and varied in range: life in the forces and the home guard, on playing fields, in small towns, and city offices. Within these settings his observations of character are acute.
Nineteen Widows under Ash by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Evelyn has left her home and her husband. She has taken her thirteen-year-old daughter two thousand miles across the USA to her childhood home. The drizzly Pacific Northwest suits Evelyn's mood perfectly. She takes small doses of liquor from a secret supply and spends her time smoking under wet trees in ...Show more
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
Anno Domini 2000 or Woman's Destiny by Julius Vogel
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Before women even got the vote, this novel prophesied women presidents, prime ministers and leaders of the opposition. Before the Wright Brothers or Richard Pearse flew, it predicted global air travel. Before the Labour Party, it advocated social welfare and subsidised housing, and before the computer a ...Show more
Dad Art by Damien Wilkins
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It’s Wellington, now. Acoustic Engineer Michael Stirling’s old life is gone. He’s on the dating scene, learning te reo Maori, living in an upmarket apartment complex, and visiting his father who has dementia. Wearing his online dating disguise, Michael meets Chrissie, the widowed mother of a young son. ...Show more
Lovelock including The Man From Nowhere - Berlin Diary by James McNeish
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering commentary on Lovelock's death. Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous ...Show more