Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and i ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is ...Show more
Lost Possessions by Keri Hulme
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: TWH Classic | Reading Level: near fine
Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly before The Bone People won the Booker Prize.
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
Te Kaihau/The Windeater (TWH Classic) by Keri Hulme
30.00 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
The Burning Land (#1 Talmont Trilogy) by David Hair
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Brandon Sanderson meets Joe Abercrombie in this astounding novel of good, evil and magic The Falcons are knights of the Vestal Order, pledged to use their powers to protect the Empire of Talmont from the cruel Vyr and the carnage they have unleashed upon the world. When the Falcons take a Vyr alive, ...Show more
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: good
Whea Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past − a past that is as secret a ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather ...Show more
White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales by Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell
38.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
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
Sacred Land (Wraiths and Strays #2) by Stephen Lomax & Shiree Taylor
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest. When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of h ...Show more
Hannah and Huia by Charlotte Lobb
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless following the sudden death of her husband and baby son one rainy night – for which she feels unspeak-able guilt. She pays little attention to her institutional surroundings as events play and replay inside her head. There is no way out, ...Show more