Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter
Category: Sale Book
When the stars were rhinestones. When your car was a blue Holden god. When kisses spread to your back teeth, marathons of sucking. When we pashed through jokes, through tunes, through homework, through the leftovers we shovelled out our schoolbags. When you let me tattoo you with talk. Thirty-one exhila ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.
In the Time of the Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
Category: Sale Book | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
The Burning River by Lawrence Patchett
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van's life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibilitya perilous inland journey that ...Show more