Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007 Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007 Winner of the Kiriyama Writers' Prize 2008 Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the ...Show more
The Crocus Hour by Charlotte Randall
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The first half of this new novel is set in Crete in 1981. The narrator is a young man who has come to a small, religious village for a holiday. In the main village café, he meets a New Zealand man, Henry Davis, who befriends him. Henry Davis soon reveals that his daughter Sally had gone missing in the v ...Show more
Oracles and Miracles by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in Christchurch in the thirties and forties, a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, dunnies and textile mills'. This colourful stor ...Show more
Ribbons of Grace by Maxine Alterio
28.00 NZD
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. Ming Yuet, an intelligent, resourceful young woman, has taken on ...Show more
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilizatio ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial version, recounted some forty years after the death of ...Show more