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
The League of Gentlewomen Witches (#2 Dangerous Damsels) by India Holton
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands.Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first.Demanding the help of rakis ...Show more
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter's night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of strangers into a web of confusion that over the course of a few days changes all their lives. There's the young Maori widow just trying to raise her children, ...Show more
Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou envisions a shared ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a ...Show more
Dream Girl by Joy Holley
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she wants Lena to rescue her from a rat, but really she wants Lena to make out with her. Eve wants to get Wallace alone at the strawberry farm. Olivia just wants to leave the haunted boarding school and go ho ...Show more
Barry Crump - Collected Stories by Barry Crump
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary care ...Show more
Aukati by Michalia Arathimos
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Alexia is a law student escaping the Greek family that stifles her, and Isaiah is a young Maori returning home to find the family he's lost. Cut loose from their own cultures, they have volunteered to help Isaiah's Taranaki iwi get rid of the fracking that's devastating their land and water. The deeper ...Show more
Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A heart-warming, thoroughly entertaining novel about a whole community.
Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A sensual, witty novel that weaves together the stories of three women, beautifully written by one of our most clever wordsmiths. Sylvie rows across a lake to her wedding. Madeleine flees to Paris and works in Le Livre Bleu bookshop. Isobel is summoned to her doctor's surgery late one afternoon. Elizabe ...Show more
Living by the Moon: Te Maramataka a Te Whānau-ā-Apanui by Wiremu Tāwhai
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Living by the Moon sets out and discusses the maramataka or lunar month and the way the days and nights were understood according to Te Whānau-ā-Apanui tribal knowledge. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui ancestors were dependent on the environment, and this led them to closely study the changes and cycles in nature so ...Show more