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Rising Tide by Jennifer Palgrave
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. That’s the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellie’s aunt, draws a reluctant Lauren Fraser into the mystery. The formidable Lloyd, Nat’s father, head of Spiller Developments, tells ...Show more
Wife after Wife by Olivia Hayfield
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Glamour, infidelity, murder . . . Ruthless, devilishly handsome businessman Harry Rose is head of Rose Corporation, No. 18 on the Forbes rich list, and recently married to wife number six. But now, with his business in the spotlight and his love life under scrutiny, Harry's perfect world has the potenti ...Show more
Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama ...Show more
Fake Baby by Amy McDaid
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Fake Baby is a tender and funny exploration of the power of words, our perception of resilience and what it means to be real. Nine Days. One City. Three Oddballs. Stephen's dead father is threatening to destroy the world. If Stephen commits the ultimate sacrifice and throws himself into the harbour, he ...Show more
Two Questions - Changing Countries for Love... Is It Worth It? Would You Do It Again? by Danielle Murray
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Tish Louise, World War Two GI Bride. And Megan, Lucie and the mysterious missing Annie. Four different women from different corners of the world and in different periods in time who fall in love with a foreigner and follow him home. First comes romance, then comes reality.Who doesn't like the idea of me ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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
Auē (Aue) new edition by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In this highly entertaining novel, Edith Wharton is variously reimagined- as a host in the afterlife, a historical figure in a modern novella, and as an elusive presence in the pages of her own writing. But when a lifelong secret is exposed, it's almost too shocking to be true. Hugely acclaimed during ...Show more
Ephemera by Tina Shaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The One that Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave (Hilary Lapsley & Lois Cox)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Wellingtonian Lauren Fraser is easing into a comfortable retirement when her historian friend Ro reveals a shocking secret. Ro’s research has uncovered the attempted poisoning of a New Zealand prime minister. Why has the plot been covered up? As they get closer to the truth, Lauren and Ro find themselve ...Show more
Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
