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
Dream Girl by Joy Holley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she wants Lena to rescue her from a rat, but really she wants Lena to make out with her. Eve wants to get Wallace alone at the strawberry farm. Olivia just wants to leave the haunted boarding school and go ho ...Show more
Howling In The Wilderness by Diana Harris
33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This lively historical novel is a compelling account of the people, events, and the forces driving them that surrounded the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Best First Book Award for Fiction Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try -with varying degrees of success- to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. B ...Show more
Invincible by WJ Moloney
44.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This is the incredible story of one man's journey through a world war and then onto world-wide sporting glory. Son White and his horse Ben endured the horrors of WWI. Upon White's return home, he embarks on another journey with another group of young New Zealanders, who bind together to become Invincibl ...Show more
Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou envisions a shared ...Show more
The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
How do you catch a killer…When the only evidence is a dream? James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’ execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When he does, nine years later, Detective Inspector Rebecca Kent is tasked with closing the ...Show more
The Collections by Patricia Donovan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Soutar, Monty
49.99 NZD
Category: Pakimaero / Fiction
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
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
35.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. As Hana and her tea ...Show more
Eddy, Eddy by Kate De Goldi
29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexp ...Show more