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9781869794033

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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Carl Nixon
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson's body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up.
What happens, though, when the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, unexpectedly turns up in the days before the funeral and forcibly takes the boy's body?

According to Maori custom the boy must be buried in the tribe's ancestral cemetery at the small coastal town of Kaipuna. According to the law there is very little Box can do. With no plan and little hope, Box gets in his old truck and drives north, desperate and heartbroken.

Settler's Creek explores the claims of both indigenous people and more recent settlers to have a spiritual link to the land.

First published September 2010.






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9781869793159

The Crime of Huey Dunstan order quantity
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Author: James McNeish
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
Professor Chesney - Ches for short - recalls a court case from fifteen years ago in which he was an expert witness. At its centre is Huey Dunstan, a young man accused of murdering a taxi driver in cold blood. Ches, called in to try to determine the motivation behind this uncharacteristic act of violence, is at first baffled by an ordinary, unassuming, polite young man who seems determined at all costs to incriminate himself. The crux of the case involves the twin enigmas of buried memory and provocation, both contentious elements that require risk-taking at the edge of New Zealand law. But Ches is no foreigner to dilemmas of this kind he is a trained psychologist, specialising in trauma, and he is blind. This is a compelling, beautifully written novel. It is both emotionally engaging and thought-provoking - an important insight into the workings of the law and of humanity.

First published June 2010.

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9780143205029

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Author: Kapka Kassabova
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
A couple arrive in a dead-end coastal village somewhere in South America. The only place to stay is Villa Pacifica, part hotel and part animal sanctuary run by eccentric ex-pats.
Travel guide-writer Ute and her husband Jerry are joined by an assortment of travellers: in-your-face American Max; sporty flight attendants from Australia; musicians Luis and Helga - all looking for something out of the ordinary.
Ute begins to meet the locals and explore the villa's surrounds. She senses that the place taps into her most intimate fears. Its disturbances may well be beyond the rational mind.
Soon, personalities and relationships begin to crack.
When a huge storm descends on the coast, travellers and locals are thrown back on their own devices. The hot-house world that prowls below the surface of Villa Pacifica rises to engulf everyone. Madness begins to take hold.

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9780864736376

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Author: Patrick Evans
Published by: Victoria University Press
One day in 1955 the 'father of New Zealand fiction' finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy spell in hospital and is looking for somewhere safe to live and write. Somewhat to his own surprise, not to mention discomfort, he takes her in. What happens behind that high Takapuna hedge in the ensuing year is the story told in this delightful and moving novel.

About the author:
Patrick Evans is the author of two previous novels (Being Eaten Alive and Making It) and a number of plays. His other books include The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature (1990), The Long Forgetting: Postcolonial Literary Culture in New Zealand (2007), An Inward Sun: The Novels of Janet Frame (1971) and Janet Frame (1977). He lives in Christchurch and has taught New Zealand literature at the University of Canterbury since 1978.

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Finding the Field : An adventure of body, mind and spirit order quantity
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NZ$ 48.00 each
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Author: Michael Brown (ed Sue Neale-Brown; illus Renzie Hanham)
Published by: Createspace
First published 2010.

Physical Info: 1.65 cms H x 13.28 cms L x 20.29 cms W (0.33 kgs) 312 pages

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9780143204695

Cut and Run order quantity
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Author: Alix Bosco
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
When a rugby star, who began life on the toughest city streets, is murdered in the arms of a beautiful celebrity, it seems to be an open and shut case of a drug deal gone wrong. But Anna Markunas, legal researcher for the prime suspect's defence team, begins to uncover a far more sinister truth - a truth that could destroy everything and everyone she cares about most and could, ultimately, destroy her.

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9781869791681

Limestone : A Novel order quantity
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Author: Fiona Farrell
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
Finalist in the Fiction category.

Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an Art History conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a couple of rotund earthlings, a singer whose song she does not understand. Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love - and limestone.

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9781869508234

The Legend of Beau Baxter order quantity
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Author: Ivan Dunn
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
Flashman in rugger shorts. Wonderful writing, funny and fast paced -- for rugby fans with a sense of humour. A rollicking leg-pull that plays fast and loose with rugby lore, in the style of an alternative (and much funnier) history of one of our most famous touring rugby teams - the 1924 Invincibles - practically saints in Kiwi rugby mythology.

First published August 2010.

 
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9781877441134

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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Mike Johnson (illustrated Darren Sheehan)
Published by: Titus Books
In a neglected corner of Travesty, in an apartment building called the rathouse, five marginals take on the universe. Drunk Len takes a gamble on salvation, but can he find the ticket? Nisa Michelangelo reconstructs his David with a vital difference, but can art defeat time? Dr Reingold, the keeper of the files, finds himself doing the bidding of his hidden masters, but will he betray his patient? Dilly Lilly goes exploring through her tunnels of soft toys in search of her mother’s funeral, but what will she do with the mutant baby rat? And Glow Harvey steps into the world of probabilities on an odyssey of discovery, helped by his mysterious girlfriend Hermes, but will he remember enough to avert the destruction of Travesty by The Lion King and his terrorist allies?

It all comes together on the Day of Delight.

Welcome to Travesty, where the stringent laws of purgatory rule and every nerve is put to the test. Mike Johnson’s first ... more

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9781921656491

Traitor order quantity
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Author: Stephen Daisley
Published by: The Text Publishing Company
What would make a soldier betray his country?

In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital.

Mahmoud is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love, and of the saint who flew to paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows between them.

A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend.

Stephen Daisley's astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love—how each changes everything, forever. Evoking horror and beauty and a profound sense of the possibility of transformation, Traitor is that rarest of things: a work of fiction ... more

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9781877008283

The Scarecrow order quantity
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Author: Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Published by: The Text Publishing Company
"The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut."

There's a sex killer at large, but 14-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les are much more concerned about the fate of their chooks and the terrible enmity of the Lynch gang. Ages 15+

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143204374

Came a Hot Friday (Popular Penguin) order quantity
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author: Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker. But there's already other skullduggery afoot ...not to speak of the Te Whakinga Kid, a Zorro nut and the wildest comic ever to ride the ranges.

First published 1964.

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Author: Emily Perkins
Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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9781869793500

The Night Book order quantity
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Author: Charlotte Grimshaw
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.' Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large, comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be changed forever. In the next few months there will be an election, and, if the polls are correct, Roza will become the Prime Minister's wife. She has faced the prospect with relative calm, but a chance encounter with party donor Simon Lampton sparks a chain of consequences that will bring turmoil to both their lives. Award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw has turned her unflinching eye on contemporary New Zealand society in this intricate and elegant novel. Sharp, moving, brimming with ... more

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9780143204428

Going West (Popular Penguin) order quantity
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Author: Maurice Gee
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has long been regarded as one of the most autobiographical of Maurice Gee's novels.

 
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