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9781869793074
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Author: Jenny Pattrick
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 10
Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. But why should Jeanie
avoid her after twenty-four years apart? They had been so close when they were young women, when Jeanie
had turned up in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father, who had unexpectedly inherited a
plantation there. Elena's confusion turns to intrigue when she discovers the gallery is exhibiting the work of
Jeanie's daughter, a daughter Elena had been unaware even existed but who shows definite hints of Samoan
ancestry. Was there more to Jeanie's flirtation with Elena's brother than Elena had realised, or are there other
secrets to uncover?

A compelling novel that takes us to Samoa in the 1960s and NZ in the 1990s.

First published March 2010.

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9780143203650
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Author: Elizabeth Smither
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 6
On the day Lola Dearborn vowed to never attend another funeral, she was deliberately present at three ...Lola Dearborn marries into Dearborn & Zander, a family of funeral directors, when she falls for Sam Dearborn at a dance. But when Sam, and her friend Alice Zander, injured in a freak accident, die, Lola devotes the rest of her life to exploration. She takes up residence in an art-deco hotel, she befriends the members of the Sylvester Quartet after gate-crashing a rehearsal. She reflects on the different kinds of love offered by men: Luigi the Italian undertaker who buries a dog with its owner, and Charles the retired surgeon with his disruptive daughter, Brandy. Lola's themes underpin an exploration of love and death (including pet cemeteries), music and friendship. Set between Australia and New Zealand, it is a story both acute and amusing, knowledgeable and questing - much like Lola herself.

First published march 2010.
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9781869791438
Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories order quantity
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Author: Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 5
Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures.
This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart.
Lying at the core of our interactions, words are both salves and weapons, they can be simple and fork-tongued. How we read, how we misinterpret each other, can reveal the nature of our society, its diversity, complexity and richness. Written by a mix of leading New Zealand writers, with Maori, British, Irish, Polynesian, ... more
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Author: David Ballantyne
Published by: The Text Publishing Company
In Stock: 4
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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The Man in the Shed : Stories order quantity
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Author: Lloyd Jones
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 4
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. Jones's extraordinary tales take conventional family situations and tilts them sideways, delivering a memorable, beautiful blend of the suburban and the surreal.

First published September 2009, Auckland
Trade paperback
Short stories
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9781869792510
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Author: Owen Marshall
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 3
Being a celebrity impersonator, says the Aussie Elton John, is like living your life as a moon. 'We give up our
identity and become just a reflection of another personality, like the moon having no fire of its own and being just a pale reflection of the sun when it's not there.' This new collection of stories from master short fiction writer Owen Marshall is rich in people exploring their identities and how they are affected by others. There is Patrick, whose life is radically alerted by a random encounter with a killer; widowed Margaret, who faces a new kind of existence alone; David, who experiences the 'spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers';Ian, whose wife's demands for a better lifestyle lead him to a new career in telephone sex. Set in both Europe and the Antipodes, these twenty-five stories are at once arresting, moving, funny and full of insight into the human condition.

First published August 2009.
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9781877378249
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Author: Graham Lay (ed)
Published by: David Ling Publishing Limited
In Stock: 3
This second anthology from Graham Lay again reflects the power of the beach to inspire, rejuvenate and occasionally, to seduce us.

First published September 2008.
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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: 3
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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9781877378294
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Author: Lyn Loates
Published by: David Ling Publishing Limited
In Stock: 2
Helen Mainyard was eight years old when her father suddenly uprooted the family from their home in Christchurch and resettled in Melbourne. When Helen is twenty-one, she learns the real reason for the family's abrupt departure. In the process Helen unearths a trail of human transgressions.

First published June 2009.
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9781869791087
Dead People's Music : A novel order quantity
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Author: Sarah Laing
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
Classical is karaoke - just playing covers of dead people's music - or so Wellingtonian Hannah concluded at her London conservatorium. She's sabotaged her scholarship there, but wants to keep playing the cello, like her grandmother, Klara. Now unmoored from her classical training, she's in New York City, where Klara grew up. As Hannah investigates her Jewish-refugee heritage, she starts to compose her own songs, but has to contend with diabetes and other burning issues:
Is she with the right man, or should she swap stability for lust? And how much longer can she live with a neurotic, junk-scavenging flatmate, on the verge of murdering another zebra fish?
 
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9780143010173
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Author: Paula Morris
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 2
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9780143203643
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Author: Paddy Richardson
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 2
On a perfect summer's day, at a school picnic beside a lake, a little girl goes missing, leaving a family devastated and a community asking questions.
Seventeen years later her sister, Stephanie, is practising as a psychiatrist. A new patient's revelations force her to re-examine her sister's disappearance.
Why are their stories so similar?
Unable to let the matter rest, Stephanie embarks on a journey to find out what happened to her sister.

First published February 2010.
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9780143020288
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Author: Linda Olsson
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 2
Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her life. Olsson leads us through the flowering of their unusual and tender friendship, as they slowly and carefully reveal their life histories and sometimes heart-rending pasts. The Swedish landscape is always a powerful presence and measures the progress of the women's relationship; as the icy winter and bare trees give way to spring and then summer, the women's friendship deepens.

Veronika divulges the death of her fianci James, a New Zealander, and Astrid exposes her terrible family background: a mother who committed suicide, an abusive father, an unhappy marriage and the death of her daughter. As the women grow closer, they find peace within themselves.

A stunning first novel by a new writer ... more
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9781869792886
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Author: Rachael King
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
"There were two rumours surrounding my great-great-grandfather Henry Summers: one, that his cabinet of curiosities drove him mad; and, two, that he murdered his first wife." Rosemary Summers is an amateur taxidermist and a passionate collector of tattoos. To her, both activities honour the deceased and keep their memory alive. After the death of her beloved grandfather, and while struggling to finish her thesis on gothic Victorian novels, she returns alone to Magpie Hall to claim her inheritance: Grandpa's own taxidermy collection, started more than 100 years ago by their ancestor Henry Summers. As she sorts through Henry's legacy, the ghosts of her family's past begin to make their presence known
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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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9781869418793
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Author: Charlotte Grimshaw
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
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'You could look back after a long time and ask, who wanted what from whom?' A man confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary uncovers her boss's secret shame. And in a house in Auckland an elderly woman is writing the last book of her life, one which, she says, contains all of her crimes. How are the characters connected and who is writing the stories? Each of these astute stories is an inspection of motive, rich in vivid insight into a diverse range of lives. Together, they form a unified whole. Opportunity is a book about storytelling, about generosity and opportunism; above all it is a celebration of the subtleties of human impulses, of what Katherine Mansfield called the LIFE of life.

Winner Montana Fiction or Poetry Award 2008

Notes:
Grimshaw’s new collection of nineteen interlocking stories is marvellous, as one of her characters (a John Campbell-esque newsreader) would say. These are true Auckland stories, with Auckland landscape, Auckland weather, Auckland people (St Cuth’s old girls, Remuera mums) and Auckland crime. The stories are punchy and swift, unsettling, full of encounters and opportunism, misunderstandings, motives and modi operandi. ‘Do take the opportunity to read Opportunity. It’s riddling and rewarding. Appreciate its skill. Acknowledge its depths’ (David Hill, NZ Herald) – Anna

Montana Medal for Fiction 2008
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869419585
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Author: Owen Marshall (ed Vincent O'Sullivan)
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers -- generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but because his stories so precisely capture his fellow New Zealanders and their country. From the provinces to the cities, the remote landscapes to journeying overseas, Marshall's stories show a deep understanding of who and where we are. From the substantial body of work created over the last thirty years, Vincent O'Sullivan has selected sixty stories that give a wide representation of Marshall's range. He once wrote that short stories should aspire to a combination of 'intransigence and poetry', both of which are evident in this fine selection.

This collection first published September 2008.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780140088038
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Author: Patricia Grace
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 2
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rage threaten to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn.

First published 1986.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864735874
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Author: Anna Taylor
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 2
From a young girl’s improper visit to an adult neighbour to a family’s relief at the lifting of sex abuse charges, from a fasting Christmas Dinner guest to a messy stumble with an urn of ashes, these stories effortlessly mix the menacing and the comic, and handle real-life situations with warmth and subtlety.

Relief introduces an astonishingly mature and confident new voice in New Zealand fiction.

First published May 2009.
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9781869791384
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Author: Charlotte Grimshaw
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 2
Charlotte Grimshaw's collection of interlinked stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Book Award.

Grimshaw has described Opportunity as a single, unified composition, less a series of stories than a novel with a large cast of characters. In Singularity, her powerful new collection, she has continued to develop the structure she explored in Opportunity. Characters from that book reappear, and new characters are added.

The stories in Singularity cover a wide range of territory, from childhood innocence to adult desperation, from the depths of poverty to cushioned affluence, from London to Los Angeles, Ayers Rock in Australia to the black sand beaches of New Zealand's wild west coast. Each stories can be read as discrete pieces, yet each contributes to a unifying narrative. Richly ... more
 
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