Wahine: A Novel by Kerry Harrison
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In 2009, a mysterious figure in an Auckland resthome, where an old woman is dying, triggers memories of the Wahine storm of 1968 and its aftermath. After the disapearance of her father Snow in the storm, fifteen-year old, Jude Farley is deposited in a Taranaki boarding school so her mother Kit can escap ...Show more
Frederick's Coat by Alan Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
From the author of the best-selling Once Were Warriors, a powerful story of love between father and son, of contrasting ways of looking at the world and of revenge. When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in so ...Show more
The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
From the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, this strikingly original novel is at turns a gothic tale of a father's obsession, a castaway story worthy of a Boy's Own adventure and a thorny remembrance of past tragedies. The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if ...Show more
Doves of Steel: One Country. Two Conflicts. Four Protagonists by Colin R Clarke
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A Land of Legend...Patagonia, the vast wilderness of legend, becomes the centre of conflict for four men, their wives and lovers. Set in the period of the 1880's to the 1930's, the novel follows the lives of Frank Burnley, a sheep farmer, Jose Mendez, a powerful industrialist, Simon Goldwitz, a Russian ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease – they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’ It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
Carnival Sky by Owen Marshall
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism, and with plans to travel overseas chucks in his job. But first he goes south to Ale ...Show more