Landed by Sue McCauley
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: NZ Fiction
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates ...Show more
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts. 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts plunges the reader into the gru ...Show more
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in reveng ...Show more
Te Koroua Me Te Moana - The Old Man and the Sea in te reo Maori - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #7 by Ernest Hemingway; Greg Koia (Translator)
Category: NZ Fiction
Hemingway's classic story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish - now translated into te reo Maori. Kei nga hihi pukaka o te ra, kei tetahi kainga pakupaku i te takutai o Hawana tetahi koroua hi ika e noho ana, ko Hanatiako tona ingoa. Kua waru tekau ma wha ra te roa kaore i mau i a ia he ika. E ...Show more
One of Those Mothers by Megan Nicol Reed
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A raw domestic thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and The Slap. If you were gripped by Big Little Lies, you'll love One of Those Mothers. The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
A Message for Nasty by Roderick Fry
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
December 8, 1941. Marie Broom wakes in her home on Hong Kong’s Fortress Hill to the sound of bombs falling nearby. Within days, Japanese soldiers have seized the surrounding buildings. Soon afterwards they take over the whole island. Most of its British residents are forcibly interned. Marie’s husband ...Show more
The Hand of Glodd (#1 Tarquin the Honest) by Gareth Ward
Category: NZ Fiction
Tarquin the Honest, Wizard of the Silver Weasel, is a liar, a coward, a charlatan and a cheat. And, according to his diminutive roguish sidekick Lunar Nix, those are his most endearing qualities. On a perilous quest to recover The Golden Gauntlet for a mysterious patron, Tarquin and his band of unlikel ...Show more
The Doctors Wife by Fiona Sussman
Category: NZ Fiction
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly inexplicable; Carmen Andino has a brain tumour. A ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more