His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
Category: NZ Fiction
Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime. Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart - his father accidently burned down ...Show more
Ocian's Elven (#2 Tarquin the Honest) by Gareth Ward
Category: NZ Fiction
Tarquin the Honest and Lunar Nix return with more underhand shenanigans and razor-tongued repartee to pull off a heist so big, bards will sing ballads of their derring-do for centuries. Created for the ancient dragons, a priceless treasure is kept under Elven lock and key at the heart of the great city ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
Category: NZ Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
Double Jeopardy by Stef Harris
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Watch out, Jack Reacher, here comes Frank Winter. Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yester-day ...Show more
The Penguin New Zealand Anthology: 50 Stories for 50 Years in Aotearoa by Harriet Allan (editor)
Category: NZ Fiction
A milestone collection to celebrate a milestone event - To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country's finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, ...Show more
Checkerboard Hill by Jade Kake
Category: NZ Fiction
Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
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
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more
Hannah and Huia by Charlotte Lobb
Category: NZ Fiction
Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless following the sudden death of her husband and baby son one rainy night – for which she feels unspeak-able guilt. She pays little attention to her institutional surroundings as events play and replay inside her head. There is no way out, ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Sleepless in Stringybark Bay by Susan Duncan
Category: NZ Fiction
A page-turning, mysterious, funny and delightful story by the bestselling author of Salvation Creek, The Briny Caf and Gone Fishing. When five couples pool their resources to live in a house located where a turquoise lagoon meets the sea and silver branches of mangroves glow in the moonlight, the quirky ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more