Black Marks on the White Page by Witi Ihimaera; Tina Makereti
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st ce ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #13: Contemporary Maori Fiction by Huia Publishers
33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Here are the best short stories from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2019 as judged by Scotty Morrison, Robyn Bargh, Tuehu Harris, Whiti Hereaka, Poia Rewi and Carol Hirschfeld. This competition, run by the Māori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is held every two years to promote Māori writer ...Show more
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 Fish by Lloyd Jones
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Another powerful, innovative and unique novel from the extraordinary author of the Man-Booker shortlisted Mr Pip. Then she lifts the Fish up from the basinet and holds him out to me. 'Go on, take him.' And to the Fish she says, 'This is your uncle.' It is a bit like catching a hastily thrown ball. She l ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
Landed by Sue McCauley
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...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
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfrie ...Show more
Miracle by Jennifer Lane
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It’s all a blur. All I remember is Dad following Constable Kelly across the one, two, three, four stepping stones that joined our front veranda to our driveway – and thinking, I’ve really done it now. Born in the middle of Australia’s biggest-ever earthquake, Miracle is fourteen when her world crumbles. ...Show more
The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex Johns, an art intern at the Courtauld, believes ...Show more
Tu by Patricia Grace
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more