The Curative by Charlotte Randall
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of an inmate in Bedlam, the London mental asylum, in the early 19th century. Living in appalling conditions he still manages to be witty, urbane and seemingly sane. As the story unfolds we learn about life in the asylum, about his life before Bedlam and how he came to be there.
Waterline by Chris Else
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Have you heard the news? Candy always had the news. There's a terrible, terrible storm coming. The winds will be 380 kilometres an hour. Should we be worried? Billie asked. Well, apparently, what you have to do is put your head inside a paper bag and hide under the bed. That can't be right, Ming said. T ...Show more
Josephine's Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France. France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napo ...Show more
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame wrote this story in 1969 for her niece Pamela. This year we reissue this excellent story for children in a beautiful illustrated flexibind gift edition, with ribbon marker. Mona Minim is a house ant about to make her first journey out of the nest. But her excitement at smelling new things, e ...Show more
Te Ao Marama 2 - Regaining Aotearoa - Maori Writers Speak Out by Witi Ihimaera (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New Authors Short Story One: Diana Athill, Maurice Duggan, Maurice Gee, C. K. Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
A Line of Sight by Adrienne Jansen
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Line of Sight is a compelling whodunnit woven through a story of community, family and an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. When Nick and Graham set out rabbit shooting one August day neither of them realise their lives are about to change forever. They spot a couple of suspected cannabis growers on t ...Show more
Waiting for Einstein by Nigel Cox
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sing to Me, Dreamer - A collector's edition with four stories by Shonagh Koea
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shonagh Koea's classic novel is reissued together with an introduction by the author and four previously uncollected short stories" It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India...As my voic ...Show more