Turncoat by Tīhema Baker
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
I see you’re coming to terms with what it means for a Human to serve the Hierarch.’‘Well, I know that a lot of Hierarch edicts completely contradict Human values. I was prepared for that when I began here—’‘Were you?’ Daniel is a young, idealistic Human determined to make a difference for his people. H ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
Wake by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes ap ...Show more
Waterline by Chris Else
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
We the Ones by Julie Helean
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
As the 150-year anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi draws near, Charlie - disgruntled with her Pakeha anti-racism group's endless meetings, leadership squabbles and debates over rhetoric - joins her Maori flatmate Kat on a reckless mission to sabotage the 1990 celebrations and the Queen's visit. With ...Show more
What Sort of Man and Other Stories by Breton Dukes
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been stood down for accessing porn on a school computer wants to re-establish contact with his teenage daughter. A carer out on a day trip is desperate to find a working toilet for his adult charge. What Sort of Man ...Show more
What You Wish For (Gabriel's Bay #2) by Catherine Robertson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A funny and poignant Gabriel's Bay story from the bestselling Catherine Robertson. Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, the newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit into Gabriel's Bay. His challenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities of the Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction ...Show more
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales by Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales is a powerful, engaging story about a boy called Petera, and his best mate Hone, growing up in small town Aotearoa. The book is full of childhood antics and adventure - surfing the sand dunes, dreaming of being an All Black, doing anything they can to stop a weir ...Show more
Witi Ihimaera: His Best Stories by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In this definitive collection by one of New Zealand's best-loved authors, Witi Ihimaera offers his personal choice of twenty-four stories from throughout his illustrious career. The pieces span more than thirty-five years - since his first collection, Pounamu Pounamu(1972), was published - and showcase ...Show more