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Rising Tide by Jennifer Palgrave

$30.00 NZD

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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 Lauren to butt out and it looks as if Nat’s brother Justin might follow through on Lloyd’s threats. But as Lauren investigates, suspects begin multiplying. Was it Harold the bird-watcher, envious of Nat’s charisma? Or Derek, whose shonky Antarctic climate science Nat was about to expose? Perhaps it was Rodger, obsessed with Ellie and wanting her for himself? Lauren enlists her circle of friends to help build the evidence for murder. The truth catches them all unawares. ...Show more

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Wife after Wife by Olivia Hayfield

$25.00 NZD

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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 al to come crashing to the ground. From eighties young gun to noughties billionaire, there's a reason why Harry's many wives have found him impossible to resist. But behind the money, sex and glamour lies a truer tale of infidelity, conspiracy and murder . . . Loosely based on the trials and tribulations of the most infamous historical playboy of them all, Henry VIII, this tale of glamour and serial monogamy will leave you wickedly entertained. 'A delicious read for anyone looking to sink into a big juicy story about love, lust, betrayal and other unfortunate consequences of the heart' Renée Rosen, bestselling author of Park Avenue Summer 'An ingenious concept with a perfect anti-hero and addictive plot - I loved it!' Francesca Hornak, author of Seven Days of Us ...Show more

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Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera

$45.00 NZD

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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 down into the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who sailed across the ocean to our shores . . . From Hawaiki to Aotearoa, the ancient navigators brought their myths, while looking to the stars - bright with gods, ancestors and stories - to guide the way. 'Step through the gateway now to stories that are as relevant today as they ever were.' ...Show more

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Fake Baby by Amy McDaid

$36.00 NZD

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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 will save humanity. The last thing he needs is a Jehovah's witness masquerading as a school boy and an admission to a mental health facility. * Jaanvi steals a life-like doll called James and cares for him as if he were her dead child. Her husband demands she return him. But she and James have already bonded, and it's nobody's business how she decides to grieve. * Lucas, pharmacist and all-round nice guy, is having one of the worst weeks of his life. His employees forgot his birthday, his mother's gone manic, and now his favourite customer is in hospital because of a medication error he made. Can he make things right? Or is life all downhill after forty? 'A darkly funny satire that's both moving and wise.' - Paula Morris ...Show more

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Two Questions - Changing Countries for Love... Is It Worth It? Would You Do It Again? by Danielle Murray

$30.00 NZD

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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 eting a handsome stranger from a far-away land and flying off into the sunset? This is the story of what happens when you get there. And then some... TWO QUESTIONS is a quirky and fun but also serious look at what it means to forgo family, friends, favorite foods, career, culture and way of life at the request of another. Filled with fascinating historical tidbits about other famous foreign wives throughout the years - think 'let 'em eat cake' Marie Antoinette, beautiful but batshit Tsarina Alexandra, the sultry and sexy Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston's mum/mom) and 'That Woman' Wallis Simpson - TWO QUESTIONS examines this often overlooked immigrant experience from all angles and explores how the decision to leave one's home country for love alone impacts over the course of a lifetime. What readers are saying about TWO QUESTIONS: Surprisingly unpredictable and simultaneously delightful... So much truth... I smiled, I laughed, got sad, cried and then smiled some more.... Such a fun read... Lyrical, witty, heartfelt... Amazing, well written and easy to read... Not to be missed... LOVED it ...Show more

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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

$28.00 NZD

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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 across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Eleanor Catton was only 22 when she wrote The Rehearsal, which Adam Ross in the New York Times Book Review praised as "a wildly brilliant and precocious first novel" and Joshua Ferris called "a mesmerizing, labyrinthine, intricately patterned and astonishingly original novel." The Luminaries amply confirms that early promise, and secures Catton''''s reputation as one of the most dazzling and inventive young writers at work today. ...Show more

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Auē (Aue) new edition by Becky Manawatu

$35.00 NZD

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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- old brother to a violent home. But Ārama is braver than he looks, and he has a friend and his friend has a dog, and the three of them together might just be strong enough to turn back the tide of sorrow. As long as there’s aroha to give and stories to tell and a good supply of plasters. Here is a novel that is both raw and sublime, a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction. Haere mai, Becky Manawatu. ...Show more

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Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey

$35.00 NZD

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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 officers' wives living in this small community anything they could possibly desire: new curtains from the finest silks, furniture designed to the most exacting specifications, execute a fresco or a mural even. The looming presence of the nearby prison camp - lying just beyond a patch of forest - is the only blot to mar what is otherwise an idyllic life in Buchenwald. Frau Hahn's husband, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, has taken up a powerful new position as camp administrator. The job is all consuming as he wrestles with corruption that is rife at every level, inadequate supplies, and a sewerage system under ever-growing strain as the prison population continues to rise. Frau Hahn's obliviousness is challenged when she is forced into an unlikely alliance with one of Buchenwald's prisoners, Dr Lenard Weber. A decade earlier he invented a machine - the Sympathetic Vitaliser - that at the time he believed could cure cancer. Does the machine work? Whether it does or not, it might yet save a life. ...Show more

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The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan

$36.00 NZD

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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 her lifetime, writer Edith Wharton is back - with the most extraordinary opportunity. Summoned to a room in the afterlife, Edith finds the manuscript of a new novella inspired by her life. A letter from her one-time editor advises Edith to consider carefully whether to destroy the work or allow its publication. Is this a chance to correct her image of haughtiness and privilege, and to reignite interest in her writing? Edith begins reading the novella to her astonished companions; and what unfolds is a cautionary story of online fame. But as she gradually remembers the details of her life, Edith becomes fearful about what the work might reveal and is haunted by the words- The letters survive, and everything survives.  ...Show more

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Ephemera by Tina Shaw

$30.00 NZD

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"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 band, and people are in survival mode - at least until somebody turns the lights on again. Ruth has always led a sheltered life. Pre-Crash, she worked as an Ephemera Librarian, now she is managing a simple, self-sufficient lifestyle. But her sister is dying from tuberculosis and her love for Juliana propels Ruth to undertake a perilous journey. She intrepidly sets off from Auckland to find the man known as Nelson and his rumoured stockpile of pharmaceutical drugs. Word has it he is based at the old Huka Lodge. Along with the handsome Lance Hinckley and enigmatic Adebowale Ackers, Ruth travels by steamboat up the Waikato River - the only practical way. The group journeys through settlements that have sprung up along the river as people try to re-establish their lives in this precarious time. With society itself broken, will Ruth manage to keep her commitment to her sister without compromising her own values? Inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, this post-apocalyptic, partly comedic novel reveals that things are not always what they seem. ...Show more

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The One that Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave (Hilary Lapsley & Lois Cox)

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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 s in danger. Set as Jacinda Ardern’s government comes to power, one death follows another, and a cold case is not all they have on their hands. ...Show more

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Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe

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‘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 ervention.  This is a novel about the dark side of being special.  About the war between fact and coincidence. About the things we can never share.  Read the Kete review here. ...Show more

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