Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Anderson Barbara
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: VUP Classic | Reading Level: near fine
Victoria University Press is enormously proud to publish this new edition of one of New Zealand's favourite novels, 26 years after it was first published to critical acclaim here and in the UK and US. While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her hu ...Show more
Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, intriguing, lyrical and ultimately moving, this entertaining and insightful novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reput ...Show more
Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A heart-warming, thoroughly entertaining novel about a whole community.
Rangatira by Paula Morris
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern ran ...Show more
Decline and Fall on Savage Street by Fiona Farrell
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating novel about a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives of event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. And the tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and pr ...Show more
Lifting by Wilkins Damien
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Amy is a store detective at Cutty's, the oldest and grandest department store in the country. She's good at her job. She can read people and catch them. But Cutty's is closing down. Amy has a young baby, an ailing mother, and a large mortgage. She also has a past as an activist. This compelling novel op ...Show more
Good Sons: A Novel of the Great War by Greg Hall
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In early 1914 Frank Wilson and his two close friends, Tom Davis and Robert Sutherland, are growing up in Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The coming war in Europe arouses the hopes and dreams of a generation of young men. The pressure becomes irresistible and one by one the boys become soldier ...Show more
Brushstrokes of Memory by Karen McMillan
$9.99 NZD
$35.00 (71% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of love, lost memories and rediscovering dreams.On her thirty-second birthday, Rebecca is in high spirits. She adores her husband of seven years, Daniel, a successful musician. She is carving out a reputation as a talented painter. Life could not be better. But in 2013, she wakes in hospital aft ...Show more
Through the Lonesome Dark by Paddy Richardson
$29.99 NZD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Blackball, West Coast, pre-World War I. Three youngsters; Pansy, Clem and Otto. Life had an idyllic surface with a far from idyllic underside for youngsters in this mining town. As a World War approaches, the harsh realities become apparent just because you are smart and motivated there is no certaint ...Show more
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky he ...Show more
Billy Bird by Emma Neale
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
"Moving, insightful, lyrical and also at times very funny, this novel is a supple, disarmingly frank exploration of parenthood. Liam and Iris have one son- Billy, a bright 'toddler puddling about like a penguin, leaving surrealist art installations all over the house- a tiny cow in a teapot in a hat on ...Show more
Scarlet & Magenta by Lindsey Dawson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the 1880s, misbehaving wives were asking for trouble. Building a raw Bay of Plenty town was hard enough without free-thinking females upsetting local society. Violet comes to Tauranga from London with a scandalous past and an aching heart. She befriends a kindred spirit, Anna, and catches the eye of ...Show more