Cousins by Patricia Grace
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts) by Alice Te Punga Somerville
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
In Our Own Back Yard by Anne Kayes
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It's March 2020 and Liza, her husband and two teenage children are at home in Auckland in level-four lockdown due to Covid-19. Reflections with her family around the dining table inspire Liza to reflect on another challenging time in history nearly forty years before when the South African Springbok rug ...Show more
Cuz by Liz Van Der Laarse
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
River is offered a trip on his uncle's trawler. His cousin Huia is annoying, always going on about Maoritanga. When an accident leaves them stranded on the coast of Fiordland, they must work together to save themselves.
White Lies by Witi Ihimaera; Dana Rotberg
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A powerful, prize-winning novella from the much-loved author of The Whale Rider, plus a moving screenplay, film stills and commentary on writing and movie making. A medicine woman a giver of life is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal consequences. When sh ...Show more
National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
National Anthem is a new poetry collection from award-winning journalist and writer Mohamed Hassan. It charts an intimate course through memories from his childhood and upbringing in Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey and elsewhere to untangle the intersecting traumas of migration, Islamophobia and grief and as ...Show more
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
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Falling Into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, fourteen-year-old twins, get home from school - until they find their mother, Maia, has disappeared and a swirling vortex has opened up in her room. They are sucked into this portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Maori Underworld, a shadowy place of in ...Show more
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria by Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus
28.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Muhammad Najem and CNN producer Nora Neus. "A story of journalism at its most inspiring, its most heartbreaking, its most essential. Muhammad is a reporter who brings hope to a damaged world." --John Berman, ...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
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