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
Settlers' Creek by Carl Nixon
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A poignant and contentious novel by a rising star of New Zealand literature. Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson's body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up. What happens, though, when the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, unexpectedly turns up in the days before the fu ...Show more
In the Absence of Heroes by Anthony McCarten
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A clever, moving novel about the impact of the internet on our relationships.Jim and Renata Delpe's life is in a very modern crisis. With their son, Jeff, sending text messages to his dead brother while slipping quickly into internet addiction, and with Renata engaged in a secret internet relationship w ...Show more
The Gorse Blooms Pale - Dan Davin's Southland Stories by Dan Davin
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Dan Davin, Rhodes scholar, for many years Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1914. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences ...Show more
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
WINNER - OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION - 2016 At only 11 years of age Lew was given an apprenticeship to hard-man shearer Painter Hayes. The beginning of his new life meant one less mouth for his abandoned mother to feed, but it also meant he would never see her again. But Lew's a grown ma ...Show more
Obsession by Sandys Elspeth
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere c ...Show more
Dick Seddon's Great Dive - A Novel by Ian Wedde
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Presence of Music by Maurice Shadbolt
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Heart of the Bush by Edith Searle Grossmann
$125.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good