A Surfeit Of Sunsets by Dulcie Castree
$20.00 NZD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Written in 1985–86, A Surfeit of Sunsets was picked up by a publisher but publication fell through. Years later Dulcie Castree’s grandson Finnbar, decided the novel had to be published before she died, so he digitised it and handbound a copy as a gift for Christmas 2015. In 2016 the Castree family relea ...Show more
Nell
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb’s pride, by the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station. Nell dares to step beyond the bounds; she revels and stumbles in love; enco ...Show more
Fox Spirit On A Distant Cloud by Lee Murray
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came t ...Show more
The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna by Erin Palmisano
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The Quarry (#2 Cal Nyx) by Kim Hunt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Ranger Cal Nyx works alone in the vast NSW bush reserves but is pulled away from the quiet and solitude by a coded message that only one other person could understand. Dif, the only remaining link to her family, is in danger. He's also the last person the police are going to take seriously. No stranger ...Show more
The Secrets They Kept by Jenny Lynch
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The psychic had a curious message for Helena. She said: ‘You are not who you think you are.’ The Secrets They Kept is the story of a young woman’s quest to discover the truth about her mother’s unexplained death – and her own identity. Helena Anderson was three years old when she lost her mother in 1 ...Show more
The War Photographers by S.L. Beaumont
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
1943 Bletchley Park, England Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who's on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her; Mae's life takes an unexpected turn whe ...Show more
Because All Fades by Freddy Gillies
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Andrew and his girlfriend Jess are making a life for themselves in London, but it’s a bit of a grind, and now their relationship is beginning to suffer. Andrew’s best friend Jaryd on the other hand is living every young man’s dream – a beautiful apartment in Paris, a happy relationship with the lovely L ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a d ...Show more
Nine Girls by Stacy Gregg
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Reading Level: near fine
Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers.An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg.They dug a hole and they put the box filled with gold inside it.T ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more