The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
For Reasons of their Own by Chris Stuart
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Can the past ever be left behind? Ask a flawed detective, a former refugee and a government desperate to misuse a dead body to reshape Australia’s security policy. Melbourne is a city on the brink, from arson fed bush fires, searing heatwaves and the potential threat of terrorism. Detective Inspector Ro ...Show more
The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
'When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood ... Her eyes were open, staring sightlessly into the sky. I'd like to think she saw the stars before she died; that in her last moments, she flew. Soaring on serotonin, dreamy on dopamine. I'd like to think she didn't suffer...' A beautiful you ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Rear cover blurb: Some of the tales told within Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere: A recovering alcoholic mail pilot crashes his plane in the desert with a bottle of gin on board - The Finke River Mail (Australia) A retired taxi driver takes a job driving call girls to pay his debt ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna by Erin Palmisano
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In a village on the Greek island of Naxos there is a gorgeous guest house and taverna that never opened. Cressida's husband died suddenly three years ago - the taverna was their dream, and she couldn't do it alone. Until Marjory St. James, a young traveller, arrives in the middle of the night and, qui ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
A Can of Sunshine by Christine Leunens
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Nancy has gone from NY to NZ and lives a peaceful life with her Kiwi husband, Mike, and their seven-year-old daughter, Chloe - until a holiday escape to Fiji takes an unexpected turn. Over the next decade she will have to deal with both the fall-out and her idiosyncratic mother-in-law, Edith. Against a ...Show more
The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse-dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted-has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community. Amy Tucker is only visiting for the night and has no plans to get ...Show more
In Amber's Wake by Christine Leunens
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in New Zealand during the fast-changing, tumultuous 1980s era of the anti-nuclear movement, Springbok rugby tour protests, and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, this romantic drama is as unpredictable as it is powerful and heartfelt. Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend A ...Show more