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Addressed to Greta by Fiona Sussman
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Greta Jellings lives a small life. No expectation, no disappointment had been her mother’s mantra. It serves Greta well now too. At 30-something years of age she has spent her life pleasing others; working for the past 22 years in a pool-chemicals shop just one of the many compromises she’s had to make. ...Show more
Man Alone (VUP Classics) by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Cousins (Film Tie-in edition) by Patricia Grace
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech â and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction â packed inside one of her very own bales of wool and very, very dead . ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen (Eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a ...Show more
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'I suddenly found myself in front of a scene of such beauty that it took my breath away ...' As a boy in the late 1930s, young Boden's life is changed for ever the day his neighbour Dudley drives him over the mountains into the vast snow-covered plains of the Mackenzie Country. He realises he will never ...Show more
A Mistake by Carl Shuker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for bla ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$36.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Funny, intriguing, lyrical and ultimately moving, this entertaining and insightful novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reput ...Show more
Catching The Current by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. In this companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad ...Show more
Everything Changes by Stephanie Johnson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us. 'What a fabulous read. Stephanie Johnson's characters choose an old motel with little to offer except an amazing view in order to st ...Show more
