Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
34.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...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
Te Koroua Me Te Moana - The Old Man and the Sea in te reo Maori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #7 by Ernest Hemingway; Greg Koia (Translator)
29.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
Hemingway's classic story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish - now translated into te reo Maori. Kei nga hihi pukaka o te ra, kei tetahi kainga pakupaku i te takutai o Hawana tetahi koroua hi ika e noho ana, ko Hanatiako tona ingoa. Kua waru tekau ma wha ra te roa kaore i mau i a ia he ika. E ...Show more
Te Ruanuku: The Alchemist in te reo Maori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #3 by Paulo Coelho
34.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction | Series: Kotahi Rau Pukapuka
Paul Coelho's inspirational global bestseller The Alchemist, translated into more languages than any other book by a living author, is now available in te reo Maori. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly ...Show more
Rangatira by Paula Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction | Reading Level: good
Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern ran ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Soutar, Monty
49.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Kohine ( Kōhine ) by Colleen Maria Lenihan
25.00 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
Tokyo is a humming backdrop to an array of outsiders: a young woman arrives to work as a stripper, the manager of a love hotel hatches a sleazy plan, a spirit wanders Harajuku, and a mother embarks on a sad journey. Linked through recurring characters and themes, these haunting stories hurtle us into th ...Show more
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
24.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ...Show more
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
24.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
The New York Times Bestseller 'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory 'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women' - Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana 'Vivid, engrossing, luminous' - Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti Five generations of women, linked by ...Show more
Black Marks on the White Page by Witi Ihimaera; Tina Makereti
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st ce ...Show more
Chappy by Patricia Grace
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love sto ...Show more