Wrens Under the Radar by Colleen Shipley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
War is declared on Germany, and Betty’s fiancé Fred enlists. Desperate to do her bit, Betty signs up with the Wrens, hoping to venture overseas. Instead, she finds herself on a top-secret mission in a farmhouse near Blenheim, along with seven other Wrens. As the women settle into their roles as teleg ...Show more
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (#1 The Shadow Histories) by H. G. Parry
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: The Shadow Histories
'A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic.' Alix E. Harrow, Hugo award-winning author. A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern wo ...Show more
The Leaning Man by Anne Harre
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they’re poor amateurs in deception and crime. It’s Saturday night down on the wharf. Celebrations are in full swing for the Westons’ fortieth wed ...Show more
Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Caught in the middle of the clash between two great Maori clans, Simeon, grandson of Bulibasha and Ramona, struggles with his own feelings and loyalties as the battles rage ... This award-winning novel is being reissued to tie in with the release of Mahana, the stunning film adaptation of the novel. ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of misfits to use all their skills to survive hunger, wild pigs and the vagaries of the ...Show more
Ephemera by Tina Shaw
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
"We were probably doomed from the moment the virus hit the airports..." - from the opening chapter of an insanely prescient new novel by Tina Shaw, written before the Covid-19 crisis. After an international meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, has shut down. No electricity, no broad ...Show more
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Vā: Stories from Women of the Moana (Va) by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young (eds)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Creative fiction from thirty-eight Oceania women writers, including Wahine Maori. Stories that tell Covid how we really feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wrath, where a sexy Samoan goes on a hot Tinder date in Honolulu, where a New Zealand doctor is horrified to be stuck at her ...Show more
A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie and her baby. We had to. It's not like Sophie was going to look after that baby herself. All she was interested in was weeping and ...Show more
The Deck by Fiona Farrell
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
During a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escape to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece The Decameron t ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more