Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex Johns, an art intern at the Courtauld, believes ...Show more
The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
'When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood ... Her eyes were open, staring sightlessly into the sky. I'd like to think she saw the stars before she died; that in her last moments, she flew. Soaring on serotonin, dreamy on dopamine. I'd like to think she didn't suffer...' A beautiful you ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is ...Show more
Dice by Claire Baylis
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: 1st
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.
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTHHana Westerman is a tenacious Ma¯ori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. As Hana and her tea ...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, and ...Show more
Middle Distance - Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand by Craig Gamble (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and spra ...Show more
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: Dangerous Damsels
Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society - as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells.These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more