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Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter's 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 of a few days changes all their lives. There's the young Maori widow just trying to raise her children, ...Show more
The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime-writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no-one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.So when their 7 year old son Zach goes missing, naturally the police and the public wonder if th ...Show more
Buy Me Love by Greg Brook
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Disappointed by the way small-town New Zealand novels tend to leave out pumas, ghosts and power-crazed dictators? Don't worry; that's about to change…On the day that old friends Mark, Andy and Angela are unexpectedly reunited, they also become millionaires, along with the other 704 lucky people in Bridg ...Show more
Blood on Vines by Madeleine Eskedahl
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Four friends, a shared past, a common enemy. In New Zealand's Martinborough, an ex-wine maker is murdered. The precise planning and execution by the unknown assailant begin a series of vile attacks. Meanwhile north of Auckland, the long, hot summer is over and the tourists have left the Matakana wine ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diff ...Show more
Man Alone (VUP Classics) by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and a ...Show more
Time to Remember by Janna Ruth
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
When the Canterbury Earthquakes destroyed their city, Natalie and her friends were only ten years old. Too old to forget, but too young to be heard, they have never told their stories. Until now. Ten years after the earthquakes, Natalie returns to her home town with a plan. To show how the earthquakes ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
The Liminal Space by Jacquie McRae
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
In a small village, there are whispers in the market square that William is not who he says he is. They say he skinny-dips and talks to trees. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books – for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. Emily is in a troubled relations ...Show more
In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Set against a ticking clock, this "taut and unpredictable" thriller pits a ruthless cult against a mother's love, revealing that our darkest secrets are the hardest ones to leave behind (Chris Hammer). Four days to go Amy has only ever known life in the Clearing, amidst her brothers and sisters--until a ...Show more