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
The New Ships by Duignan Kate
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to ...Show more
The Beat of the Pendulum by Chidgey Catherine
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the acclaimed The Wish Child comes something unexpected and fearless: a found novel. The Beat of the Pendulum is the result of one year in which Chidgey drew upon the language she encountered on a daily basis, such as news stories, radio broadcasts, emails, social media, street signs, ...Show more
The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Biografiis an imaginative melding of travelogue and fable that sparked controversy on its release. When Lloyd Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist who looked like the dictator and had been forced to give up his identity a ...Show more
Songs from the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good- very good
A woman rows across a lake with a small part-Asian child. The woman is Violet Trench, who in future years will run the Violet Caf? with an iron will.Those who work in her caf? come from a diverse range of backgrounds, but each with their own troubles and each affected by working for this enigmatic woman ...Show more
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more