NZ Fiction
A classic novel that became a classic film. An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attentio..
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David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's ..
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East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved Cleftwater. Everyone in the village knows Martha, but no..
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Hold up your phone to take a photo and some people won't be there. Look for them in older images and their bodies are gaps, the rest of the photo still busy around them. People have stopped appearing ..
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'Keeps readers on their toes from the opening page. His is a rare talent that continues to turn out crime masterpieces' Herald Sun 'A twisty small-town PI mystery with a protagonist I didn'..
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Know what a thing's called, and we own it; if not, there's really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we've said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O'..
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In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood. Is this universal rite-of-passage really an intimately personal event, down to the degree of fluid..
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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 murderi..
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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 approac..
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Friday afternoon. Trafalgar Street. School's out. How better to start your weekend, than cruising the main drag? But when Kael, Tegan and Freya annoy two women in a plus-size dress shop, things ra..
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Love happens when you least expect it... Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her..
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I remember us, my love With plans so young and free Our faces flush like springtime When it was just you and me. A stirring poem of the partnership during parenthood that wi..
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To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and su..
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When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in yo..
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Something to get my teeth into. Something I wasn't altogether sure I could do. Hell, it was about time I had something hard-hitting, out of the ordinary. Rebecca Thorne needs a story that will ea..
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AUSTRALIA'S ANSWER TO KATHY REICHS. 'Dark and twisted, this addictive thriller will keep you guessing right up until the final chapter. Loved it!' Rebecca Gibney Based on the hugely successful Ch..
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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..
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This remarkable second collection by award-winning poet Joanna Preston charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her bold and original voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the r..
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Tung is the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Otepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in t..
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Tunui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Maori poets. Rolling easily between korero Maori and the canonical traditions of English-language poetry..
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Dunedin, 1890: Suddenly orphaned at the tender age of twenty, Greer Gillies is reduced to working as a humble servant at Larnach Castle, a far cry from the dreams she held before. As she struggles wit..
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In this, the eighth volume in the Detective Inspector O'Rorke series, it is the summer of 1888. As O'Rorke prepares to leave London to return to New Zealand, Crimean War 'ghosts' of both friends and e..
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" No. 2" - Nanna Maria decides it is time to hand over the reigns of the family to her as yet unnamed successor. She orders a feast, and while the family prepare and await her decision, we get to know..
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Jane Halifax will need all her forensic experience to unlock the secrets of one of the world's most formidable minds: a Silicon Valley billionaire whose ex-business partner has just been murdered ... ..
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The Outstanding Spiritual Qualities of Te Waikoropupu Springs Kevin Fiadh Moran is a poet-shaman and activist who coordinates the Save Our Springs (SOS) Campaign whose goal is to protect Te Waiko..
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Even after visiting the Oracle, Adrienne still can't quite believe the prophesy. But whether she believes it or not, there is no denying the strange power building within her, or the bond forming betw..
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It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to d..
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Khadro Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim women in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into ..
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In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in..
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In this electrifying debut, Rushi Vyas untangles slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide. 'When my father finally / died,' he writes, 'we [...] burned, / like an ef..
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An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's ru..
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From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha. In the 1880s, Mere ye..
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A champion of regenerative farming is brutally murdered. An intensive dairying advocate has shot himself. What is going on in this peaceful rural community? Lauren Fraser, visiting South Canterbu..
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A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. ..
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Set in the Mackenzie Basin, this vivid novel is about familial love, friendship and how our lives touch, connect and impact upon one another. 'The SUV advanced, without slowing as it passed; the ..
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At the heart of Catherine Chidgey's extraordinary new novel is an enigmatic voice that tells the story of German families caught up in a nation's dream. It's 1939. Two children watch as their parents ..
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Gutsy new P.I. Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted thriller. Twisty, gritty and unputdownable, in this story the underdog is fighting back. Perfect for readers of Sarah Bailey and Jane..
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Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begin..
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From the steam of Joe Tui's long-gone Dunedin fish-and-chip shop to a young possum clinging to a plum tree, via substance-fuelled manic narrative, Zen solitude and vivid evocations of childhood, by tu..
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Whoever invented love at first sight should have left instructions for what to do when it only strikes one of you... ...is all Ava Durant can think as she watches the man of her dreams from across ..
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