Audition by Pip Adam
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A finalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 - The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Audition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, the ...Show more
A Runners Guide to Rakiura by Jessica Howland Kany
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“A Millennial New Yorker, a Stewart Island fisherman, and a WW II veteran walk into a bar...”Maudie’s on the run – from New York and from her past – but she runs headlong into her future when she ends up on Rakiura Stewart Island on assignment to cover Aotearoa New Zealand’s southernmost running trails. ...Show more
Checkerboard Hill by Jade Kake
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are ...Show more
The Leonard Girls by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Rowie's pro-war, her sister Jo's a protester. And they're both in Vietnam. The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the Ashes In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Dick Seddon's Great Dive and other stories by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: THW Classics | Reading Level: near fine
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding's literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon's Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981. Dick Seddon's Great Dive traces the story of ...Show more
Te Kaihau/The Windeater (TWH Classic) by Keri Hulme
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize. These 20 stories were written over more than a decade and range from widely anthologised classics like the novella-length ...Show more
Puripāha: Te Pane Kaewa - Bulibasha in Te Reo Māori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #6 by Witi Ihimaera; Ruth Smith (Translator)
39.99 NZD
Category: Kotahi Rau Pukapuka
He whakamāoritanga i te pukapuka o Puripāha nā Witi Ihimaera mō ētahi whānau hoariri e rua ki Te Tairāwhiti. Ko Puripāha te tapanga ka tukuna ki Te Pane Kaewa, ā, ki Te Tairāwhiti o Aotearoa e pakanga ana ētahi kokoro tokorua kia whakawahia hai pane. Ko Tamihana te upoko o te whānau toa o Mahana, he whā ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
The Burning River by Lawrence Patchett
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van's life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibilitya perilous inland journey that ...Show more