Dice by Claire Baylis
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
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
Middle Distance - Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand by Craig Gamble (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and spra ...Show more
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: Dangerous Damsels
Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society - as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells.These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all ...Show more
The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, and ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult 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
The League of Gentlewomen Witches (#2 Dangerous Damsels) by India Holton
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands.Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first.Demanding the help of rakis ...Show more
Dream Girl by Joy Holley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she wants Lena to rescue her from a rat, but really she wants Lena to make out with her. Eve wants to get Wallace alone at the strawberry farm. Olivia just wants to leave the haunted boarding school and go ho ...Show more
Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks aft ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
Barry Crump - Collected Stories by Barry Crump
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary care ...Show more