The Call by Gavin Strawhan
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023 A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deportee gang, set in a remote coastal New Zealand townAfter surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of ...Show more
The Penguin New Zealand Anthology: 50 Stories for 50 Years in Aotearoa by Harriet Allan (editor)
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A milestone collection to celebrate a milestone event - To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country's finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex Johns, an art intern at the Courtauld, believes ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu - Te reo Māori edition by Witi Ihimaera
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Witi Ihimaera's first published book - Pounamu Pounamu - translated into te reo Maori. Published in collaboration with Kotahi Rau Pukapuka. E rima tekau tau ki muri, ka puta mai a 'Pounamu Pounamu' hei kai ma te ao panui reo Pakeha. Ko te whakataunga o nga mana matauranga o Aotearoa o taua wa, he pukapu ...Show more
Mila and the Bone Man by Lauren Roche
38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
29.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | 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
Amma by Saraid de Silva
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more