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
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
Aukati by Michalia Arathimos
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Alexia is a law student escaping the Greek family that stifles her, and Isaiah is a young Maori returning home to find the family he's lost. Cut loose from their own cultures, they have volunteered to help Isaiah's Taranaki iwi get rid of the fracking that's devastating their land and water. The deeper ...Show more
Familiars and Foes by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: 1st
An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts… At least Adeline can’t say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she’s gotten is her assistance dog, Coco. When a frightening encounter with a ghost brings an old friend back into her ...Show more
The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy.Two women. One secret. A truth wo ...Show more
The Pōhutukawa Tree (THW Classics) by Bruce Mason
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
First published in 1960, and reprinted many times, The P?hutukawa Tree is an acclaimed classic of New Zealand theatre, and has been performed, read and studied for over 60 years.
Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A sensual, witty novel that weaves together the stories of three women, beautifully written by one of our most clever wordsmiths. Sylvie rows across a lake to her wedding. Madeleine flees to Paris and works in Le Livre Bleu bookshop. Isobel is summoned to her doctor's surgery late one afternoon. Elizabe ...Show more