Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
The Words for Her by Thomasin Sleigh
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Hold up your phone to take a photo and some people won’t be there. Look for them in older images and their bodies are gaps, the rest of the photo still busy around them. People have stopped appearing in photographs. First a handful, then many more. Does this new, troubling group pose a threat? From the ...Show more
The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't care much about them. Kauri embarks on a journey into his father's past, to come to terms with the trauma he's experienced in his short life, and to break the cycle of violence he fears perpetuating as he ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. ...Show more
The Last Letter of Godfrey Cheathem by Luke Elworthy
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"The [NZ] novel of the year" - STEVE BRAUNIAS, Newsroom.co.nz, Dec 2022. A novel of father figures, bullshit and belonging. As Vladimir Nabokov expert Professor Brian Bode writes in his foreword to Godfrey Cheathem's last letter:"I was able to play a prominent role in bringing his remarkable novel Chasi ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Sanctions in Paradise by Peter Nicholl
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conferences are held annually on one of the many beautiful island member states of the British Commonwealh and are usually very boring. The 1985 Conference was just like all its predecessors in the first respect. It was held in the Seychelles, the most stunning of all the ...Show more
The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood ... Her eyes were open, staring sightlessly into the sky. I'd like to think she saw the stars before she died; that in her last moments, she flew. Soaring on serotonin, dreamy on dopamine. I'd like to think she didn't suffer...' A beautiful you ...Show more
kitten by Olive Nuttall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous but timid, promiscuous but inexperienced. She’s surprising, and surprised by herself. A call that Rosemary’s grandmother is dying puts her on the bus from Te Whanganui-a-Tara back to Kirikiriroa. There, wit ...Show more