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Landfall 238 by Emma Neale (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books ...Show more
Inside The Black Horse
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Inside the Black Horse is a fast-moving thriller, a story of fate, and unlikely love story for our time. Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of strangers into a web of confusion that over the course ...Show more
True? by Michael Botur
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Aussie. Apps. Poets. Parole. Trysts. Travel. Rehab. Refugees. Jail. Journos. Strippers. Celebs. Drugs. More drugs. Sixteen short stories by an author described by Takahe literary journal as "One of the most original story writers of his generation in New Zealand."
Ephemera by Tina Shaw
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"We were probably doomed from the moment the virus hit the airports..." - from the opening chapter of an insanely prescient new novel by Tina Shaw, written before the Covid-19 crisis. After an international meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, has shut down. No electricity, no broad ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | 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 a ...Show more
The Saffron Runners by B.G. Fox
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winged Helmet White Horse by Karyn Hay
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the success of Karyn Hay’s historical fiction novel, The March of the Foxgloves, Karyn returns with Winged Helmet, White Horse – more reminiscent in style of her debut, Emerald Budgies. Set in contemporary London, Winged Helmet, White Horse is a darkly comic psychological drama. Tim has master ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Now a major television series. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
Pounamu, Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera. First published in 1972, it was immediately endorsed by Maori and Pakeha alike for its original stories that showed how important Maori identity is for all New Zealanders. As Katherine Mansfield did in her first collection In a German Pension(1911), and Janet Frame i ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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
Whatever It Takes by Paul Cleave
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if ...Show more