This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
Unsheltered by Clare Moleta
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
As the resourceful, relentless Li tracks her lost daughter across a disintegrating country, the journey will test the limits of her trust, her hope and her love. Unsheltered will leave you wrung out and gasping. Relentlessly propulsive and profoundly moving, Unsheltered taps into some of our worst fears ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. ...Show more
How to Loiter In a Turf War - A Novel by Coco Solid
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists.Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa's most versatile artists. It's a day in the life of three fri ...Show more
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
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 an ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
The Seasonwife by Saige England
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facing a season of upheaval. White men are whaling, sealing, whoring and warring. Creatures are culled, woods are felled. But something more sinister is afoot. There is much demand amongst the English gentry f ...Show more