The Library of Unfinished Business by Patricia Bell
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice, a small-town librarian, dies one Monday morning in a fiery car crash, and finds himself in a very unexpected afterlife, in which naked people host cocktail parties and an angelic mafia calls the shots. Meanwhile, Maurice's daughter struggles to come to terms with the death of a father she bare ...Show more
She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice’s imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running comment ...Show more
Mine by James Russell
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Taking in the mesmerising vision before me, I raised my arms towards the ocean like an idiot king acknowledging his subjects. My own surfing realm. Every single wave that broke on this reef was mine.”Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the ...Show more
Crazy Love by Rosetta Allan
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Love is stretched to breaking point in this vivid novel, based on the author's own experiences. 'We save each other, don't we, when we are in love.' It has been 28 years since Vicki last sent a letter to Robert Muldoon. Last time she wrote, he was Prime Minister, while she was living with her loser-boyf ...Show more
The Last Guests by J P Pomare
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this thrilling new novel a wife finds herself racing for answers when the decision to rent out her family vacation home takes a deadly turn. Newlyweds Lina and Cain don't make it out to their vacation home on gorgeous Lake Tarawera as often as they'd like, so when Cain suggests they rent the propert ...Show more
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfrie ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Unsheltered by Clare Moleta
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As the resourceful, relentless Li tracks her lost daughter across a disintegrating country, the journey will test the limits of her trust, her hope and her love. Unsheltered will leave you wrung out and gasping. Relentlessly propulsive and profoundly moving, Unsheltered taps into some of our worst fears ...Show more
Spellbound (Gabriel's Bay #3) by Catherine Robertson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The delightful third novel in the bestselling Gabriel's Bay series. Big trouble is brewing, secrets are coming out, threatening reputations and even lives. Outsiders are in town with questionable motives. Power and privilege are casting a seductive but ominous spell. And the Love Bus is completely munte ...Show more
Everything Changes by Stephanie Johnson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us.
The Telling Time by P J McKay
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
When secrets demand to be told . . . Two young women, a generation apart, travel to opposite sides of the world on fraught journeys of self-discovery. 1958: Gabrijela yearns to escape the confines of bleak post-war Yugoslavia and her tiny fishing community, but never imagines she will be exiled to New Z ...Show more
In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
$24.99 NZD
$34.99 (28% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what's expected of her. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. She isn't fitting in; she doesn't want to stay. What ...Show more