Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
A novel about loss and light, about storytelling and the sea. The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. But how secure can this new home be, with th ...Show more
There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh
$37.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh, a remote estate in the New Zealand Alps hosts a reunion no one will ever forget. Seven friends.One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No room for lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should have been eight... ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
String Theory by Bing Turkby
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Dana Osborne just wants to hang out in her guitar store talking music with her assistant Brody, and her colourful customers. But when once-famous prog-rock band Cranial Bypass decide to put on a reunion gig in her small town of Rockingham West, things get unexpectedly hectic. Especially when the band's ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu - Te reo Māori edition by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
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
His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime
Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime. Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart - his father accidently burned down ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
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 Authors
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
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more