Landfall 246 by Edited by Lynley Edmeades
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. Bringing together a range of voices ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
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Category: NZ Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
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Category: NZ Fiction
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
The Captive Wife (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Kidman
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Category: NZ Fiction
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened s ...Show more
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
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Category: NZ Fiction
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
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Category: NZ Fiction
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
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Category: NZ Fiction
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
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Category: NZ Fiction
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more