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9780143011675
As the Earth Turns Silver : A novel order quantity
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author: Alison Wong
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 15
Finalist in the Fiction category.

Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. The area known as Haining Street has an infamous reputation in the city, allegedly full of opium dens, weird food, gambling and strange Chinese cultural practices. Nice Europeans stay away. But for the tiny number of Wellington Chinese, it is a safe haven, a refuge from the scarcely believable and often violent anti-Chinese racism which pervades the wider Wellington community. This is the setting for an unlikely love story. Katherine is a lonely European widow struggling to support her children. Yung is a young Chinese man who runs a vegetable shop. We also learn he has a wife back in China. At first tentative, their love affair is conducted in secret, away from the daylight. Later, they grow in confidence. But in this climate how can a European woman have a successful ... more
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9780143205029
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Author: Kapka Kassabova
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 5
A couple arrive in a dead-end coastal village somewhere in South America. The only place to stay is Villa Pacifica, part hotel and part animal sanctuary run by eccentric ex-pats.
Travel guide-writer Ute and her husband Jerry are joined by an assortment of travellers: in-your-face American Max; sporty flight attendants from Australia; musicians Luis and Helga - all looking for something out of the ordinary.
Ute begins to meet the locals and explore the villa's surrounds. She senses that the place taps into her most intimate fears. Its disturbances may well be beyond the rational mind.
Soon, personalities and relationships begin to crack.
When a huge storm descends on the coast, travellers and locals are thrown back on their own devices. The hot-house world that prowls below the surface of Villa Pacifica rises to engulf everyone. Madness begins to take hold.

An ever-present air of sensuality and danger haunts Kapka ... more

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9781869791681
Limestone : A Novel order quantity
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Author: Fiona Farrell
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 4
Finalist in the Fiction category.

Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an Art History conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a couple of rotund earthlings, a singer whose song she does not understand. Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love - and limestone.
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9781869794033
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Author: Carl Nixon
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
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Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson's body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up.
What happens, though, when the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, unexpectedly turns up in the days before the funeral and forcibly takes the boy's body?

According to Maori custom the boy must be buried in the tribe's ancestral cemetery at the small coastal town of Kaipuna. According to the law there is very little Box can do. With no plan and little hope, Box gets in his old truck and drives north, desperate and heartbroken.

Settler's Creek explores the claims of both indigenous people and more recent settlers to have a spiritual link to the land.

First published September 2010.
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9780864735812
The Rehearsal order quantity
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Author: Eleanor Catton
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 3
New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction Winner

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage.But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the bounds between private and public begin to fade…
Eleanor Catton is 22 and was born in Canada and raised in Canterbury. She won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for this, her first novel.

'This is a daring book, full of velvety pleasures but never afraid to show its claws. Eleanor Catton is crazily talented and insightful - and best of all, she makes language seem new.' - Emily Perkins

First published July 2008.

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high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage.

But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the bounds between private and public begin to fade…

Eleanor Catton is 22 and was born in Canada and raised in Canterbury. She won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for this, her first novel.

She has also won the Sunday Star-Times short story competition and the audience award at Once Upon a Deadline, a one-day story contest in the Festival of the Arts Writers and Readers Week.

She is the recipient of this year’s Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship and will spend a year at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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9781869506346

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Author: Deborah Challinor
Published by: Harpercollins
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On the goldfields of Ballarat vows are broken - can a wounded heart ever forgive? When the Yarrowee River bursts its banks, Rian Farrell, a dashing Irish sea captain and part-time gunrunner, disappears in the torrential flood. Believing herself a widow, the headstrong and passionate Kitty Farrell's heart is left in tatters after the sudden death of her beloved husband. In her grief, she finally succumbs to the attractions of his long-time shipmate, Daniel, who has loved her from afar for many years. The consequences are disastrous, and will challenge Kitty Farrell both physically and mentally. The resulting novel is a heady mix of powerful relationships and memorable, passionate characters, whose compelling story plays out against a skilfully depicted and utterly realistic backdrop of Old Ballarat. An accomplished novelist and professional historian, experienced author Deborah Challinor brings her extensive skills as a bestselling ... more
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Author: Paula Morris
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 2
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9781869419837
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories order quantity
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
Virginia Woolf claimed that Mansfield's writing was 'The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Widely considered one of the best short-story writers of her period, Katherine Mansfield's stories are celebrated for their sensitive subtlety in the treatment of human behaviour. Satirical, psychologically deep, unabashed and candid about sex, pregnancy and social issues, her stories adopted a fresh style and new narrative techniques, her influences including Chekov, Impressionism and the cinema. She drew on and evoked the New Zealand landscape from her childhood, as well as her travels in Europe and literary circles in England. This is a complete collection of her finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and,In a German Pension .This edition first published March 2008 contains all the stories published in KM's five published books - Bliss, The Garden-Party, The Doves' ... more
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9780099468653
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Author: C.K. Stead
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 2
A fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life, her loves and search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. A fascinating and enlightening account.

Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murray and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' which she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even, once, into the war zone to be with her French lover, novelist Francis Carco. For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely 'background', but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible- as does her love for Jack's Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war's shadow remorselessly darkens ... more
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9780747596509

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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Emily Perkins
Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In Stock: 2
FICTION Category Winner
Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry Winner
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives.

Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.

First published 2008.

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9781921520020
Sydney Bridge Upside Down order quantity
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Author: David Ballantyne
Published by: The Text Publishing Company
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Harry Baird lives with his mother, father and younger brother Cal in Calliope Bay, at the edge of the world. Summer has come, and those who can have left the bay for the allure of the far away city. Among them is Harry's mother, who has left behind a case of homemade ginger beer and a vague promise of return.

Harry and Cal are too busy enjoying their holidays, playing in the caves and the old abandoned slaughterhouse, to be too concerned with her absence. When their older cousin-the beautiful, sophisticated Caroline-comes from the city to stay with the Bairds, Harry is besotted. With their friend Dibs Kelly, the boys and Caroline spend the long summer days exploring the bay and playing games.

But Harry is very protective of Caroline and jealous of the attention she receives from other men. And what looked to be a pleasurable summer is overshadowed by certain 'accidents' in the old slaughterhouse and a general air of ... more
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9781877460203
The 10 PM Question order quantity
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Author: Kate De Goldi
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 2
2009 Montana Book Awards Reader's Choice Winner
FICTION Category Runner-up

Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man : an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head.
'Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms?'
'Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it?'
'Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a
galloping cancer?'

Most of the significant people in Frankie’s world – his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend Gigs – seem gloriously untroubled by worry.
Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 p.m. queries.
But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask.
Then the new girl arrives at ... more
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9781869693633
The Adventures of Vela order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Albert Wendt
Published by: Huia Publishers
In Stock: 2
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagatanei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers Palagi priests and travelling chroniclers still bow down today.
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The Angel's Cut order quantity
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Author: Elizabeth Knox
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 2
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: the movies have burst into song and speech, and aircraft into the skies at speed. Into this world of soundstages and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, with his German passport and his broken heart, determined only to go on living in the air. What does it take to turn a wind? Will it be Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. Or will it be Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no-one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed -- Lucifer, who has lost him once but won't let that be the end of it. What does it take to turn a wind? Mountains. Or another wind.

First published June 2009, Wellington
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9781869793500
The Night Book order quantity
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Author: Charlotte Grimshaw
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.' Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large, comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be changed forever. In the next few months there will be an election, and, if the polls are correct, Roza will become the Prime Minister's wife. She has faced the prospect with relative calm, but a chance encounter with party donor Simon Lampton sparks a chain of consequences that will bring turmoil to both their lives. Award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw has turned her unflinching eye on contemporary New Zealand society in this intricate and elegant novel. Sharp, moving, brimming with ... more
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9780864733818
The Vintner's Luck order quantity
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Author: Elizabeth Knox
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 2
An irresistible story of love, wine and angels - the tale of a man, his vineyard and angelic husbandry in nineteenth-century France.
Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. Every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date, they meet again. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - through the horror of the Napoleonic wars, and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, and gliders fly like angels.

This delectably unconventional novel, rooted in earthy reality and grippingly written, engages grand and glorious themes on an intimate, human scale.

First published 1998.

++ 1999 Montana Deutz Medal Winner for Fiction ++
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9780143202448
Access Road order quantity
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Author: Maurice Gee
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 1
This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealand fiction doesn't get any better than this. Three brothers and sisters, all now in their eighties, two of them living in the old family home, are struggling to cope with events that have happened way back in the past. It all bursts into the open when an old school friend visits Loomis, with malice in his heart. He keeps the biggest secret of all, about the disappearance of a girl many years before. As the novel reaches its climax, the tensions reach breaking point, and violence breaks out. The death of one of the protagonists seems inevitable.

First published October 2009.
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9781877460111
Acid Song order quantity
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Author: Bernard Beckett
Published by: Longacre Press
In Stock: 1
2009 Montana Book Awards FICTION Category Runner-up

It's election day in New Zealand.
A young father confronts a teenage burglar.
A psychologist's political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community.
A staffroom argument flares up - does a playground fight warrant a student's expulsion?.
A young girl sets about mending her broken heart,a skinhead riot erupts and Richard,the biology lecturer at the heart of all these events must deal with the secret which drives them all.
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9781869711702
A Good Keen Man (50th Anniversary Edition 2009) order quantity
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Author: Barry Crump (illustrated Dennis Turner)
Published by: Hachette Livre New Zealand
In Stock: 1
2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of legendary New Zealander Barry Crump's first and most-loved novel, 'A Good Keen Man'. Crump worked for many years as a government deer-culler and the book was the result of his collected experiences.

First publisged 1960; this edition 2009.
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9780790010670
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Author: Al Lester
Published by: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd
In Stock: 1
‘Big Al’ Lester once again relays uproarious tales of hunting and gaming in the New Zealand wilderness.

The familiar but refreshing tales of life spent in the country with good friends are both accessible and rollicking, including such antics as an unfortunate experience with a Japanese traveller, jet boating, near-broken bones, a helicopter crash, and the ‘Bullshitter’s Ball’!
Fun cartoons throughout complement the writing style perfectly.
First published August 2006.
 
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