When We Wake (#1) by Karen Healey
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: When We Wake
Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027 - she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice. But on what sh ...Show more
Bugs by Whiti Hereaka
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs's lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a s ...Show more
The Bone Tiki (#1 Aotearoa) by David Hair
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Aotearoa
What do you do when you meet a tohunga makutu? You run. When reality dissolves and myths and legends come alive? You run faster. And when the dead come to life and blood debts have to be paid, will you have the courage to do what must be done? Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he took from a tangi. His fath ...Show more
Mansfield and Me - A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand-but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, 'Oh to be a writer, a real writer.' And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists ...Show more
He's So Masc by Chris Tse
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's So MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character - pop star, ac ...Show more
Caged by Susan Brocker
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
A heart-wrenching story about Sam, a 14-year-old girl from a struggling homeless family, who is already involved in petty crime. She must face her own fears and her sense of what is right, to defy a dangerous drug criminal, and rescue starving dogs and their pups from an inhumane backyard breeder.
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English by Edited by: Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In this pioneering anthology, two leading Māori poets and scholars collect together many Māori poetic voices in English and let flow a wellspring of poetry. From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Kōrero offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. The ...Show more
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea by T K Roxborogh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a ponaturi - a mermaid - washed up on a beach. An ancient grudge between the Maori gods Tane and Tangaroa has flared up because a port being built in the bay is degrading the ocean and creatures are fleeing the ...Show more
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt by Tusiata Avia
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture.
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
The birth of a daughter - Kahu - breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale Rider after whom she was named. This magical and mythical novel tells of the conflict between tradition and heritage ...Show more
Unsheltered by Clare Moleta
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
As the resourceful, relentless Li tracks her lost daughter across a disintegrating country, the journey will test the limits of her trust, her hope and her love. Unsheltered will leave you wrung out and gasping.Relentlessly propulsive and profoundly moving, Unsheltered taps into some of our worst fears ...Show more
I Am a Human Being by Jackson Nieuwland
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The debut collection from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting emerging poets. Take part in a new transformation with every new page as the speaker becomes by turns an egg, multiple trees, a town crier, a needle in a haystack, and a cone of blue light in this incisive and pathos-filled exploration of what it ...Show more