The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden for o ...Show more
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason (#3 Dangerous Damsels) by India Holton
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong . . . Find out in the riotously funny and joyfully romantic third book in The Dangerous Damsels collectionWhen rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
Double Helix by Eileen Merriman
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Would you want to know what awaits you? Would you want to be in control of your life . . . and death? What would you do for love? 'Sooner or later, willingly or unwillingly, he's going to leave you.' The words cut deep. Emily knows Jake is not like his father; he'd never leave her willingly. But if he h ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Apologia by Michalia Arathimos
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Apologia is a collection of stories threaded by the themes of loss and displacement. Each piece captures a tumultuous moment in time, and is grounded in the psychological journey of how people deal with their own traumas and fears. Though this collection is host to an array of completely different and ...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
Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
‘There are some things you can never share with another human being. Answering to the caul is one of those.’ It is said that being born in a caul means that you can never die by drowning. Andrei Reti puts this prophesy to the test, time and time again. But there is a price to be paid for each caul i ...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
The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, flas ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more