The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't care much about them. Kauri embarks on a journey into his father's past, to come to terms with the trauma he's experienced in his short life, and to break the cycle of violence he fears perpetuating as he ...Show more
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | 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
Barry Crump - Collected Stories by Barry Crump
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary care ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
kitten by Olive Nuttall
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous but timid, promiscuous but inexperienced. She’s surprising, and surprised by herself. A call that Rosemary’s grandmother is dying puts her on the bus from Te Whanganui-a-Tara back to Kirikiriroa. There, wit ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more