Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
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
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
Puripāha: Te Pane Kaewa - Bulibasha in Te Reo Māori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #6 by Witi Ihimaera; Ruth Smith (Translator)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
He whakamāoritanga i te pukapuka o Puripāha nā Witi Ihimaera mō ētahi whānau hoariri e rua ki Te Tairāwhiti. Ko Puripāha te tapanga ka tukuna ki Te Pane Kaewa, ā, ki Te Tairāwhiti o Aotearoa e pakanga ana ētahi kokoro tokorua kia whakawahia hai pane. Ko Tamihana te upoko o te whānau toa o Mahana, he whā ...Show more
Dead Man's Axe by Bing Turkby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Series: Guitar Store Mysteries | Reading Level: near fine
Freeing Grace by Charity Norman
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
When you're faced with the most difficult choice you've ever known . an absolutely compelling novel of finding love, home and family. Warm, insightful and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an inner-city parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Unable to have children of their ...Show more
The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
A gunshot rings out in a London cafe and the lives of five strangers will never be the same again. The only thing that's certain is that nothing is as it seems. A compelling, heartfelt drama from the bestselling writer of See You in September, shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awa ...Show more
Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965-2015 by Rowan Light
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
In Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965 - 2015, author Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved. Anzac Nations examines three key aspects: the changing and contested meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expande ...Show more
A Way Back to Happy by Olivia Spooner
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Sometimes you have to fall apart so that you can start again... After five years stuck in the wrong marriage, 33-year-old Emmais finally free. Her husband has moved out, her son Freddie is making friends, and her parents are finally trying to stop micro-managing her life. On a celebratory night out wi ...Show more
Remember Me by Charity Norman
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
From the author shortlisted for Best Crime Novel in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for Crime Fiction, and for Best International Crime Fiction in the Ned Kelly Awards 'An atmospheric and emotional tale of family, mystery and love ... an extraordinarily talented storyteller.' Kelly Rimmer, author of bestselling ...Show more
Mine by James Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
"Taking in the mesmerising vision before me, I raised my arms towards the ocean like an idiot king acknowledging his subjects. My own surfing realm. Every single wave that broke on this reef was mine.”Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the ...Show more