The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. 'The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I must finish my story for you. My future, my descendant, my mokopuna. Listen.?So begins the tale of Ja ...Show more
The Life of De'Ath by Majella Cullinane
$31.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this accomplished first novel, the elusive narrator - no less than Mephistopheles - recounts Theodore De'Ath's life before and during the Great War. Traumatised by a family tragedy, Theodore immerses himself the Inferno, Paradise Lost and Faust and is captivated by the Underworld. The story, which be ...Show more
The Man Who Would Not See by Rajorshi Chakraborti
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When family suddenly becomes your greatest challenge, mystery, rediscovery. As children in Calcutta, Ashim and Abhay made a small mistake that split their family forever. Thirty years later, Ashim has re-entered his brother's life, with blame and retribution on his mind. It seems nothing short of smashi ...Show more
The New Ships by Duignan Kate
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to ...Show more
The New Zealand Horse by Deborah Coddington
$90.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
A magnificent tribute to the New Zealand horse, documenting its pivotal role in the development of the early colony, in farming, transport, war, sport and in our affections. Writer Deborah Coddington and photographer Jane Ussher capture the strength, beauty and mystery of the horse across New Zealand, ...Show more
There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime by Kennedy Erik
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free verse, Erik Kennedy's first collection should climb up all the right charts: his phrases can go anywhere, then come back, and he has figured out how to sound both trustworthy and nonplu ...Show more
Therese Lloyd - The Facts by Lloyd Therese
$22.50 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
She is made of blood she raises herself up to be seen The superb second book by the author of the acclaimed 2013 collection Other Animals traces the course of a failing marriage, while illuminating the ways in which art and poetry are essential to life. Deeply felt and lyrically arresting, The Facts off ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: 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
Vulgar Wasp by Lester Phil
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
They're ranked one of the world's worst invasive species. They're often described as pure evil. People use petrol bombs, flamethrowers and shotguns on them in acts of vengeance. Wasps are feared and hated by many of us, with good reason - they sting. For anyone who is allergic to their venom, a sting ca ...Show more
Walking to Jutland Street by Michael Steven
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive frst book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedins industrial wharf precinct where some of the poets friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, Walking to Jutland ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$79.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more