Into the Jungle by Katherine Rundell
20.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-loved characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each shor ...Show more
The Twits: The Plays by David Wood (Adapted by); Roald Dahl
21.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Which one of your classmates is most like horrible Mr Twit by Roald Dahl? Children will have a splendiferous time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite hi ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #12: Contemporary Maori fiction by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
This book was either translated or put together by staff of Huia Publishers. The stories in our Huia Short Stories collections are written by various Māori authors who have been selected as finalists in the short story in Māori or English, or novel extract sections in our biennial Pikihuia Awards writin ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Off the Map by Scot Gardner
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
By turns dark and light, funny and poignant, this unforgettable collection of stories takes us right to the heart of what it means to be young in today's world, from a CBCA award-winning author. Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We ...Show more
The Puffin Book of Ghosts and Ghouls by Gene Kemp; Nick Harris
21.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
A chilling collection of 14 ghostly stories with a glow-in-the-dark cover Enter the terrifying world of the supernatural and meet an unnerving array of ghosts and ghouls, from a Victorian child with disturbing powers, two children with a gruesome plan, a boy who suddenly realizes that HE is a ghost, to ...Show more
That Stubborn Seed of Hope by Brian Falkner
24.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first day of school. A seventeen-year-old awakens to find himself trapped in an elderly body. A teenage girl discovers her boyfriend has a life-threatening virus the day after they share their first kiss. A high school student tries to communicate to ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off Again and Again by .
13.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
9 authors9 storiesto make you laugh your head off again and again!A scary shower + three twisty little pigs + a choose your own adventure + a Halloween chicken + a demonic clown + an unexpected gift + terrible twins + a famous dancing dog + a running race like no other = one hilarious book.
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off 4 Ever by .
13.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
9 authors9 storiesNine favourite children's authors are set to make kids lose their heads again ... this time for good.Join the hilarious Andy Griffiths, hysterical Felice Arena, joyous Yvette Poshoglian, jovial Marcus Emerson, slapstick Matt Stanton, side-splitting Katrina Nannestad, riotous James Roy, ...Show more
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
12.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more