Paint Your Wife by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Once, long ago when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting portraits of the women of the town in lieu of payment for catching all the rats. His special favourite was Alice, who returned his attentions. Her husband George came home from the war, and set out to prove his love and reclaim his wi ...Show more
Necessary Secrets by Greg McGee
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Secrets tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult children. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70th birthday, the year ahead is told from four different points of view. A searing picture of New Zealand society t ...Show more
The Sound of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For Detective Matt Buchanan, the world is a pretty sick place. He has probably been in the job too long, for one thing. And then there's 14-year-old Samantha Coates, and the other unsolved murder cases. Those innocent girls he just can't get out of his head. When Buchanan pursues some fresh leads, it so ...Show more
Ash Arising (Ash #2) by Mandy Hager
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ash | Reading Level: very good
The gripping sequel to the prize-winning thriller The Nature of Ash. Ash McCarthy thought he had done enough by broadcasting his story to the world, exposing the corruption and lies of Prime Minister Chandler and his cronies. With his small band of friends and family on a remote campsite in the backcoun ...Show more
The Nancys by R W R McDonald
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise. Tippy is in love with her uncle's old Nancy Drew ...Show more
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her ideas behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: "Pictures of great treasures in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for the ...Show more
The Secret History of Modernism by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The arrival of a stranger to his house in Auckland leads renowned novelist Laslo Winter to look back to the past, to London, the late 1950s. The Empire was collapsing, yet young "colonials", for whom England remained a mythical place, were still drawn there from its farthest comers. Samantha Conlan had ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction:Volume 1 by Fiona Kidman (Ed)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Superb fiction from top writers, both established and emerging, nestles between the gorgeous paua covers of this anthology. Well-known contributors include Fiona Farrell, Stephanie Johnson and Patricia Grace.
The Foreign Woman by Fiona Kidman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Explores the unexpected depths of emotion that lie beneath the surface of the lives of ordinary women.
The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
$5.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
On holiday, Susan is spirited away down a disused mineshaft by Odo and his Deathguard. Her dangerous adventures provide exciting fantasy for older readers. Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award 1982 Paperback (A Format)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease – they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’ It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale of hop ...Show more