The Seasonwife by Saige England
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facing a season of upheaval. White men are whaling, sealing, whoring and warring. Creatures are culled, woods are felled. But something more sinister is afoot. There is much demand amongst the English gentry f ...Show more
Turncoat by Tīhema Baker
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Daniel is a young, idealistic Human determined to make a difference for his people. He lives in a distant future in which Earth has been colonised by aliens. His mission: infiltrate the Alien government called the Hierarch and push for it to honour the infamous Covenant of Wellington, the founding agree ...Show more
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
Dick Seddon's Great Dive and other stories by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: THW Classics
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding's literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon's Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981. Dick Seddon's Great Dive traces the story of ...Show more
Howling In The Wilderness by Diana Harris
33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This lively historical novel is a compelling account of the people, events, and the forces driving them that surrounded the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Arms and Legs by Chloe Lane
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, New Zealand-born Georgie's marriage has stagnated. But there's no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can't find his words, there's something in her husband's eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a ...Show more
The Doctors Wife by Fiona Sussman
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly inexplicable; Carmen Andino has a brain tumour. A ...Show more
Down From Upland by Murdoch Stephens
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
While flirting with an open marriage, Jacqui and Scott nudge their son on a more moderate course as he begins at a new high school and makes new friends. Down from Upland is a kitchen sink, domestic novel that opens at the precise moment the first Millennials find themselves raising a teenager. Skewerin ...Show more
Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Set on the shores of Lake Tekapo, this vivid novel is about familial love, friendship and how our lives touch, connect and impact upon one another. 'The SUV advanced, without slowing as it passed; the driver probably didn't even register him. Roland watched until it reached the canal crossing, where the ...Show more
Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. ...Show more
The Final Call by Jen Shieff
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Buckle up for The Final Call, Jen Shieff’s third book, a standalone sequel to The Gentleman’s Club and The Vanishing Act – both finalists in the Ngaio Marsh Awards. It’s 1979. Auckland is on the brink. Fashion and music are bursting through previous boundaries but prostitution is still illegal and male ...Show more
I Laugh Me Broken by Bridget Van der Zijpp
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ginny is feeling lighter and heavier at the same time. She’s just learned from her cousin about a devastating genetic inheritance – but the revelation has brought a new logic to her mother’s death many years before, and to her mother’s love. Leaving her fiancé in the dark, Ginny flees to Germany to rese ...Show more