The Blue by Mary McCallum
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Lilian lives in an isolated island community at the mouth of Tory Channel trying to make the best of a life that has at its core a secret grief. It is 1938 and for three months of every year the men take to the sea to hunt whales with fast boats and explosive harpoons. This year, the whales aren't the o ...Show more
At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley comes an intriguing story about recovery, reflection and reconnecting with ourselves and others. Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise- If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the ma ...Show more
Corkscrew You by Catherine Robertson
$26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Flora Valley Ser.
Could the guy she loves to hate turn out to be her perfect pairing?If Shelby Armstrong wants to keep her late father's beloved Flora Valley Wines in business, she'll have to listen to Nathan Durant's advice. But given the fact that Shelby is all heart and Nate is nothing but tough love, bringing the win ...Show more
You're So Vine by Catherine Robertson
$26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Flora Valley Ser.
Whoever invented love at first sight should have left instructions for what to do when it only strikes one of you......is all Ava Durant can think as she watches the man of her dreams from across the room at her brother's wedding. Handyman Cam Hollander takes the 'strong, silent type' label to new extre ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Tie-in): the internationally bestselling novel, now a major Stan Original series by Heather Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of me ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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 d ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Captive Wife (Popular Penguins) by Fiona Kidman
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened s ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguins) by Jenny Pattrick
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguins) by Maurice Gee
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Checkerboard Hill by Jade Kake
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are ...Show more