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
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