A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie and her baby. We had to. It's not like Sophie was going to look after that baby herself. All she was interested in was weeping and ...Show more
The Only Living Lady Parachutist by Catherine Clarke
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The balloon, now fully inflated, was restive and impatient, straining at the circle of men and boys holding it. Lillian’s scanty costume attracted even more admiring glances. All eyes stared at her in a blur of dread and desire as she positioned herself on the trapeze. ‘Ready … I mean right,’ she said w ...Show more
The Leaning Man by Anne Harre
$20.00 NZD
$37.00 (45% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they’re poor amateurs in deception and crime. It’s Saturday night down on the wharf. Celebrations are in full swing for the Westons’ fortieth wed ...Show more
The Madison Gap by Patricia Donovan
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
You think you know someone. You accept that because you are siblings, raised in the same house in the same town by the same parents, you share a common view of the world, live by an identical set of values. But what if you are wrong? In Sydney, 2017, in the laid-back suburb of Glebe, Lexi Madison is liv ...Show more
The Liminal Space by Jacquie McRae
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks aft ...Show more
A World of Trouble - Fateful Decisions by Jacky Renouf
$30.00 NZD
$40.00 (25% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
1940, Guernsey. Nineteen is a time to be young, to make rash decisions and follow your heart. For Marion, Stella and Rachel, age doesn't mean a thing when World War Two comes to their shores. A mass evacuation springs into action, hundreds of people, both friends and family, fleeing their tranquil islan ...Show more
Lit: Stories from Home by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers have been brought together in this new short story collection. Sixteen stories have been selected specifically for New Zealand/Aotearoa secondary English classroom teaching, with stories exploring ideas abou ...Show more
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The Beautiful Dead (#1 Cal Nyx) A nail-biting crime thriller by Kim Hunt
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Working alone in the vast reaches of the New South Wales bush, Cal Nyx finds a body. When the remains are identified as someone she once knew, detectives view her as a possible culprit. Then they find the dark blot on her past, a killing. Cal, a seriously can-do queer protagonist, isn’t the most so ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$20.00 NZD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more