Mr Spicebag

Freddie Alexander; Helen O'Higgins (Illustrator)

Be warned, Reader, this book isn't about a normal spice bag, nor is it about a normal boy. Quite the opposite. This book is about the Spice Bag, and our unlikely hero: a 10-year-old boy named George... It also has: A dash of adventure A sprinkle of mystery A greasy villain And a talking mouse ...

Mum for Sale

Zanni Louise

Errol’s mum won’t get off the phone. So there’s only one thing for Errol to do ... Find out what happens when cheeky Errol puts his mum up for sale!...

The Sweet Blue Distance

Sara Donati

A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series. 1857: In a bid to outrun he...

Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island. In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of...

Six-Legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa

Lily Duval

Why isn’t Aotearoa famous for its insects? We have wētā that can survive being frozen, weevils with ‘snouts’ almost as long as their bodies, and the world’s only alpine cicadas. There is mounting evidence that insect numbers are plummeting all over the world. But the insect apocalypse isn’t just a fara...