The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women by Fiona Farrell
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
On 22 September 1960, six girls gather behind the school toilets to read Peyton Place: Caroline the leader, Heather the caregiver, Kathy the actress, Raeleen the explorer, Greer the mystic and Margie the rebel. Like the historical heroines whose stories are repeatedly held up to them as models, these gi ...Show more
Rotoroa by Amy Head
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On tiny, isolated Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf is a treatment facility for alcoholic men. It's here, at the Salvation Army-run home, that three characters at very different points in their lives will find themselves gathered, each for reasons of their own. There is Katherine, known to history as E ...Show more
A Roderick Finlayson Reader edited by Roger Hickin by Roderick Finlayson
$43.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: new
Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992) was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who came to prominence in the 1930s. This selection of his fiction and non-fiction--some of it unpublished, much of it previously uncollected--edited with an introduction by Roger Hickin, includes stories from his four short st ...Show more
The Wedding at Bueno-Vista by Shonagh Koea
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Stench by Mike Johnson
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"After they closed down the hospital, before selling it off to the bulldozers, a few of us broke in at night through a loose window at the back and ran around the corridors in the dim light playing ghosts and dead people. "That part was funÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂæ" These are the opening lines of ...Show more
The Bridge (#1) by Jane Higgins
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Bridge | Reading Level: very good
The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the war. ...Show more
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 ...Show more
The Severed Land by Maurice Gee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reac ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage "This book is just amazingly, wondrously great." --Alice Walker In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual a ...Show more