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Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen (Eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a ...Show more
Familiars and Foes by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts… At least Adeline can’t say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she’s gotten is her assistance dog, Coco. When a frightening encounter with a ghost brings an old friend back into her ...Show more
Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
‘There are some things you can never share with another human being. Answering to the caul is one of those.’ It is said that being born in a caul means that you can never die by drowning. Andrei Reti puts this prophesy to the test, time and time again. But there is a price to be paid for each caul int ...Show more
This Is Not A Pipe by Tara Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
I've decided to document my life in pictures. It's hard to draw the pole, because of the pole. Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient. On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating pr ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Now a major television series. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, fla ...Show more
Huia Short Stories 10: Contemporary Maori Fiction
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: Huia Short Stories
The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Maori and Best Novel Extract. For over ten years, the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have organised this biennial writing competition to promote Maori stories and writers. Th ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Baby by Annaleese Jochems
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Fiction 2018. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', ...Show more
The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, an ...Show more
The New Ships by Kate Duignan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to ...Show more
Moonlight Sonata by Eileen Merriman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A bitter-sweet novel of forbidden love and family secrets. 'Some secrets should never be told.' It's the annual New Year family get-together. Molly is dreading having to spend time with her mother, but she is pleased her son will see his cousins and is looking forward to catching up with her brothers . ...Show more