The Blackbird Sings at Dusk by Linda Olsson
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A compelling novel about friendship, identity and love. One winter evening, Elias, a young artist, watches a woman move into his apartment building. After closing her door, however, she is not seen again. A misdirected letter finally gives Elias the opportunity to make contact. But inside her dark apart ...Show more
The Children's Pond by Tina Shaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While working at a trout-fishing lodge on the Tongariro River, Jessica slips into a relationship with a handsome, charming Maori lawyer. When the body of his troubled niece Chantelle is found in the Children's Pond, J ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author.Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
Days Are Like Grass by Sue Younger
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A beautiful New Zealand summer. An ugly past that won't stay buried. Paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman has reluctantly returned to Auckland from London. Calm, rational and in control, she loves delicately repairing her small patients' wounds. Tragically, wounds sometimes made by the children's own fami ...Show more
The Virgin & the Whale: A Love Story by Carl Nixon
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. Sh ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous f ...Show more
Boy Overboard by Peter Wells
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
An achingly insightful coming-of-age novel about discovering sexuality and selfhood. Hungry Creek runs out over mudflats and curves around to a tidal beach. Hungry Creek is where everything is put that nobody wants: a dump, a zoo, a loony bin. It is also a magical place. 'I'm two bits of mismatched biki ...Show more
Second Violins - New Stories Inspired by Katherine Mansfield by Marco Sonzogni
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Among the numerous pieces of writing that Katherine Mansfield produced during her short life, there were fifteen stories that were not completed on her death but which she had intended for inclusion in her collection named after one of them, The Dove's Nest. This fourth volume of her stories, reproduced ...Show more
From Under the Overcoat by Sue Orr
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A collection of vivid, accessible stories, which are modern in setting or sensitivity, entertaining and New Zealand in focus - and this collection can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier stories from Mao ...Show more
Dead People's Music by Sarah Laing
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Classical is karaoke - playing covers of dead people's music - or so Wellingtonian Hannah concludes when she sabotages her London conservatorium scholarship. But she wants to keep playing, like her grandmother, Klara, from whom she inherited a cello. The instrument was broken at a party when Hannah was ...Show more