The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
The Sound of Breaking Glass by Kirsten Warner
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'I am driving up the Curran Street on-ramp and ahead of me Milk Bottle Man is dashing up the safety railing on the Harbour Bridge. He jumps onto the superstructure and runs up to the national flag. He is jumping from foot to foot and holding two figures in each hand – they must be the size of real peopl ...Show more
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
49.95 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
Dawn Raid (My New Zealand Story) by Pauline Smith
20.99 NZD
Category: Junior/Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Like many 13-year-old girls, Sofia’s main worries are how to get some groovy go-go boots, and how not to die of embarrassment giving a speech at school! But when her older brother starts talking about protests and overstayers, and how Pacific Islanders are being bullied by the police, a shadow is cast o ...Show more
Tu Meke Tui (Maori Edition) by Malcolm Clarke
19.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
Motuhake ana nga ahua rereke o Tere Tui, o Taitu Takahe hoki: tera ka whai ki te titakataka me te koromiomio i te rangi, tera ano ka pai ake ki te ngaeheehe ki te ururua o te ngahere. Tu Meke Tui! he paki hoahoa, he paki matatoa, he paki tuhura tonu kia ahatia a tatou rerenga ketanga i roto i o tatou ma ...Show more
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
I Am Jellyfish by Ruth Paul
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Chased to the depths of the bottomless blue, What does a tiny Jellyfish do? Jellyfish is quietly crooning in the shallows, when knife-nosed Swordfish swooshes, races and chases her, down, down, down, deep into the dark blue sea. At that moment, stealthy Squid stretches a tentacle, tussling and tossing ...Show more
Driving To Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction 2018, and Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2018. As a young child Diana Wichtel is brought up in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew ...Show more
Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Non Fiction
Over a thousand years ago, the wind, sea currents and stars brought people to the islands that became known as Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Navigate your way through this sumptuously illustrated story of New Zealand. Explore the defining moments of our history, captured by celebrated chi ...Show more