Just One Damned Thing After Another by TAYLOR JODI
$23.95 AUD
Category: New Releases | Series: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Series
History is just one damned thing after another - Arnold Toynbee A madcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone's cup of tea...Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major histor ...Show more
Deleted Scenes for Lovers by Tracey Slaughter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The knowledge of everyone they're about to hurt is not an element easy to breathe in. They're the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That's your choice: this is the director's cut." Seventeen powerful stories of contemporary New Zealand life from a writer whose penetrating gaze reveals the ...Show more
Back of His Head by Evans Patrick
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Raymond Thomas Lawrence was one of the great literary colossi to bestride the twentieth century. He turned his upbringing in conservative Canterbury and participation in the Algerian War of Independence into a series of novels that dazzled the world, and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature ...Show more
Invisible Mile by Coventry David
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team from New Zealand and Australia were the first English-speaking team to ride the Tour de France. From June through July they faced one of toughest in the race's history: 5,476 kilometres of unsealed roads on heavy, fixed-wheel bikes. They rode in darkness through mountains with ...Show more
Failed Love Poems by Joan Fleming
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book of fiction and slant autobiography by Joan Fleming occupies the dizzying space between what can be told about love, and what cannot.
Dad Art by Damien Wilkins
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It’s Wellington, now. Acoustic Engineer Michael Stirling’s old life is gone. He’s on the dating scene, learning te reo Maori, living in an upmarket apartment complex, and visiting his father who has dementia. Wearing his online dating disguise, Michael meets Chrissie, the widowed mother of a young son. ...Show more
Victims of Lightning by Bill Manhire
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers. First published March ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
$43.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
China at the Crossroads by Harris Peter
$43.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
China is at the crossroads. After decades of breakneck development it is facing growing problems. These range from corruption, unrest and pollution to uneven, unsustainable growth. If these problems are solved China is set to become a strong, wealthy centre of power. If they are not it will face years o ...Show more
The Antipodeans by Greg McGee
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of epic proportions, the Antipodeans spans three generations of New Zealand and Italian families, from Venice to the South Island of New Zealand, from the assassination of a Gestapo commander in the last days of Italian resistance during World War II, to contemporary real estate shenanigans in A ...Show more
Fixer by Daniel John
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Match-fixing is one of the biggest issues surrounding sport at this time. John Daniell, a former professional rugby player, has written the fascinating novel about Mark Stevens, a former All Black playing professional rugby in Paris. Moving toward the end of his career Mark is drawn, through his relatio ...Show more
Trust No One by Cleave Paul
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A “powerhouse novel.” —Booklist“This thriller isone to remember.” —New York Journal of Books“Cleave’swhirligig plot mesmerizes.” —People magazine (People Pick)“This outstanding psychological thriller forces the reader to reconsider what is real.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A vivid, jangled expl ...Show more