Baby No-Eyes by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitched together by pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No-eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's ...Show more
The Dream Swimmer by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'Eleven years have passed since that winter of 1986 when I put down my pen on the story of the woman who wore pearls in her hair, my grandmother the matriarch, Riripeti Mahana nee Pere, whom some called Artemis . . .' So begins The Dream Swimmer, Witi Ihimaera's gripping sequel to The Matriarch, acclaim ...Show more
The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera
35.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In keeping with his commitment to revisit his first five pieces of fiction, Witi Ihimaera has reworked the original text of this much-loved classic. The matriarch is a woman of intelligence, wit, beauty and ruthlessness, and has become a mythical figure through her fight to repossess the land and sustai ...Show more
Girlie by Gillian Ranstead
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
In a remote rural valley in the New Zealand hills, two cultural traditions interweave. The land is owned by Maori, and there are many Maori in the community. But the other families regard themselves as Celtic, with ancient memories stretching back through the centuries, to Culloden, and before. A trauma ...Show more
Ribbons of Grace by Maxine Alterio
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It focuses on the love affair between Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman, and Conran, an Orcadian stonemason. This touching novel opens with Ming Yuet at the graveside of her ...Show more
Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimeara
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A fine novel from Witi Ihimaera in which a great story about a feisty teenager is interwoven with a dazzling trip through Maori mythology. Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds ...Show more
The Plumb Trilogy Plumb Meg Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Plumb is one of Maurice's most admired and loved novels. The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zea ...Show more
Oracles and Miracles by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in Christchurch in the thirties and forties, a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, dunnies and textile mills'. This colourful stor ...Show more
Edwin + Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story by Laurence Fearnley
30.00 NZD
30.80 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This beautifully written novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual friendship formed between 62-year-old photographer Edwin and 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting photographs for her wedding. ...Show more
Ribbons of Grace by Maxine Alterio
35.00 NZD
36.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It focuses on the love affair between Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman, and Conran, an Orcadian stonemason. Ming Yuet, an intelligent, resourceful young woman, has taken on ...Show more
The God Boy by Ian Cross
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: Very Good
Im a God boy, Sister, I said. You dont have to worry about me, Im a God boy. Jimmy Sullivan believed he was protected by God until his parents unhappy marriage finally broke down, with tragic consequences. Now a disturbed thirteen-year-old at a Catholic boarding school, Jimmy rages at God for fa ...Show more
Bliss and Other Stories - out of print by Katherine Mansfield
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the title story of this collection, we meet Bertha, a young married woman, who experiences a blissful sexual awakening, only to be cruelly disillusioned. In the 14 stories in this collection, the characters reveal the universal struggle of human beings to fulfil their expectations.