Author: | Bill Manhire |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Collects the stories from The New Land : A Picture Book (1990) and the stories added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own-adventure novella The Brain of Kat... read more
Author: | Bill Manhire |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | good-very good |
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday col... read more
Author: | Jane Mander |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
The narrative of Alice Roland's long and steady growth towards shared love, a new awareness of life and a sense of personal liberation flows through the pages of the first New Zealand novel to convincingly confront many of the twentieth century's major poli... read more
Author: | Kirsty Powell |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears.
Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandm... read more
Author: | Catherine Robertson |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
No one knows 'happy endings' like romance novelist Darrell Kincaid. She's delivered eight of them to her readers with pleasure. But it's not to be with book number nine.... read more
Author: | P J McKay |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
When secrets demand to be told . . . Two young women, a generation apart, travel to opposite sides of the world on fraught journeys of self-discovery. 1958: Gabrijela yearns to escape the confines of bleak post-war Yugoslavia and her tiny fishing community... read more
Author: | Witi Ihimaera |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War.
Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden... read more
Author: | H. G. Parry |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library. For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has con... read more
Author: | Witi Ihimaera |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Series: | Popular Penguins |
Reading Level: | very good |
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as leader of a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of c... read more
Author: | Witi Ihimaera |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
The birth of a daughter - Kahu - breaks the lineage of a Maori tribe. Rejected by her grandfather, Kahu develops the ability to communicate with whales, echoing those of the ancient Whale Rider after whom she was named. This magical and mythical novel tells of the confli... read more
Author: | Summer Wigmore |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | Very Good |
Awards: | Shortlisted for Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel (Adult) 2014. |
Wellington. The wind city. New Zealand's home of art and culture, but darker forces, forgotten forces, are starting to reappear. Aotearoa's displaced iwi atua - the patupaiarehe, taniwha, and ponaturi of legend - have decided to make Wellington their home, and while some have... read more
Author: | Stephanie Johnson |
Category: |
New Zealand Fiction |
Reading Level: | Very Good |
A unique blend of a compelling story with insights into writing from a prize-winning author...some of us are not satisfied with that one life, even if it is shared with many friends and relatives. Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for... read more