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This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
Obsession by SANDYS ELSPETH
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere c ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is ...Show more
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. 'The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I must finish my story for you. My future, my descendant, my mokopuna. Listen.?So begins the tale of Ja ...Show more
Rotoroa by Head AMY
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
On tiny, isolated Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf is a treatment facility for alcoholic men. It's here, at the Salvation Army-run home, that three characters at very different points in their lives will find themselves gathered, each for reasons of their own. There is Katherine, known to history as E ...Show more
The Garden Party (Penguin English Library) by Katherine Mansfield
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
A Sister In My House: A Novel by Linda Olsson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Honest and moving, this intense storycarefully tracks a relationship stunted in childhood but given a second chance. One sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There's only one recorded, But both belong to me. Maria has found a sanctuary in a rented house, overlooking a small Spanish villag ...Show more
Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure, DIFFERENTLY NORMAL is about first love and the sacrifices you'll make for the ones you hold close. For fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes. For Maddy, life is all about routine. It has to be, to keep her sister with autism happy and he ...Show more
All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
A Sinner's Gift by Zoe Beesley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After a decade of working in the darkened streets of London, Officer Fergus Toop is back in the highlands of Scotland. Standing in the dim light, with the clouds threatening to break over the hills, hopes of a fresh start are fast becoming a distant memory. Death is a part of him. He can't escape it. Th ...Show more
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Her came from behind and held her in his arms, told her to look again at earth and sky and water. Could she see how the world turned silver? People died, he told her, because they were afraid. They did not go out at night on dangerous water. They did not see the earth as it turned overnight to silver. F ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars Trilogy: House of Strife, Monday's Warriors, Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Here for the first time in one volume, are Maurice Shadbolt's three best-selling and award-winning novels The House of Strife, Monday's Warriors and Season of the Jew. Together they comprise his New Zealand Wars Trilogy, generally seen as New Zealand's finest historical fiction. Drawing on real events i ...Show more
