Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna by Erin Palmisano
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult 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
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
Blood Matters by Renée
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Puti Derrell likes running at midnight. During lockdown it was safe but now lockdown is over and Porohiwi doesn’t feel safe anymore – especially when she discovers her estranged grandfather has been murdered and left with a Judas mask on his face. Puti’s already got a lot on her plate. She’s the new gu ...Show more
The Liminal Space by Jacquie McRae
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
In a small village, there are whispers in the market square that William is not who he says he is. They say he skinny-dips and talks to trees. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books – for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. Emily is in a troubled relations ...Show more
As the Trees Have Grown by Stephanie de Montalk
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
The poems in Stephanie de Montalk's new collection engage with the world as if through a window - cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to sol ...Show more
Blind Date by Joy Cowley
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
“It is all about vision beyond seeing.” Rose Gillander has had two marriages to good men who were ambitious and somewhat self-absorbed. There has not been much room for the sort of love she craves.Now aged eighty-five, sensible, reserved Rose has lost most of her sight and is living in Ferndale Rest ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rag ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult 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