Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Lloyd Jones, author of the bestselling Mister Pip, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has delivered a poignant tale of a mother's quest to be united with her child. Hand Me Down World tells the story of a nameless Afric ...Show more
Man Alone by John Mulgan
14.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
'That's Auckland, mate - the Queen of the North.' 'The what?' 'The Queen of the North. That's what they call it - in Auckland. This is God's own, this country.' Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our writing for decades. John Mulgan's vision of New Zealand society as detached and unsentim ...Show more
Access Road by Maurice Gee
37.00 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealan ...Show more
The Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence by Patricia Grace
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied- urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers fi ...Show more
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A stunning first novel that was to become an international bestseller. Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her l ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007! Winner of Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction 2007. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author. Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up ...Show more
Tu by Patricia Grace
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip, now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada. The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shaped New Zealand's identity, from which the players returned to f ...Show more
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Blindsight is the story of a good though damaged man and his less than virtuous sister. As their childhood closeness unravels, Alice moves into her career in science (she's a mycologist), while Gordon descents into vagrancy and silence. For more than thirty years they do not meet. Then a young man appea ...Show more
As the Earth Turns Silver: A Novel by Alison Wong
38.00 NZD
39.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards Fiction category. Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. The area known as Haining Street has an infamous reputation in the city, allegedly full of opium dens, weird food, gamb ...Show more
Ribbons of Grace by Maxine Alterio
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It focuses on the love affair between Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman, and Conran, an Orcadian stonemason. This touching novel opens with Ming Yuet at the graveside of her ...Show more