The Method Actors by C. Shuker
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A cutting-edge debut novel in which the hedonism of young expats in Tokyo collides with a secret history of Japan. The Method Actors traces the disappearance of a young, gifted military historian named Michael Edwards from his desk in Tokyo and his sister Meredith
The Most Beautiful Man in the World by Jill Marshall
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Jill Marshall's new title involves a group of women who are connected in a very unusual way. What can a housewife from Hampshire, a pole dancer from Taranaki, a London publisher and an LA soap starlet all have in common? All their lives have been impacted by The Most Beautiful Man in the World. But, it' ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The New Animals by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They've come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they'r ...Show more
The New Ships by Duignan Kate
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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 New Zealand Book of the Beach by Graeme Lay (ed)
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The cream of New Zealand's fiction writers with a thematic anthology that is perfect for summer reading. Stories are from established and new award-winning writers. A number of stories have been specially written for this collection Authors are Rhonda Bartle, Norman Bilbrough, Sue Emms, Charlotte Grimsh ...Show more
The New Zealanders by Maurice Shadbolt
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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The Night Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.' Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning ho ...Show more
The One that Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave (Hilary Lapsley & Lois Cox)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Wellingtonian Lauren Fraser is easing into a comfortable retirement when her historian friend Ro reveals a shocking secret. Ro’s research has uncovered the attempted poisoning of a New Zealand prime minister. Why has the plot been covered up? As they get closer to the truth, Lauren and Ro find themselve ...Show more
The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since. London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears her New Zealand employers Judge and Lady Martin are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle old ...Show more
The Pale North by Hamish Clayton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1998, Wellington. A series of catastrophic earthquakes has left the city destroyed. Returning to the ruin from London, a New Zealand writer explores the devastation, compelled to find out for himself what has become of the city he left years ago. As he drifts through the desolate streets, home now to th ...Show more