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by Connor McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009

Few know�New Zealand's backcountry and byways, and�the hunters who often inhabit them, as well as Connor McKenzie. Throughout his 50-plus years of hunting high-jinks, misadventures and 'success stories', he has amassed all sorts of yarns - always worth the telling, usually hard-case and, sometimes,...
by Patricia Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

One of Patricia Grace's most popular novels. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her families hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. These three women are the cousins. Moving from the forties...
by Elizabeth Smither
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

On the day Lola Dearborn vowed�to never attend another funeral, she was deliberately present at three . . . � Lola Dearborn marries into Dearborn & Zander, a family of funeral directors, when she falls for Sam Dearborn at a dance. But when Sam, and her friend Alice Zander, injured in a freak accident,...
by Catherine McKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009

'My point is this: who needs enemies when you have a family?' Claire Delaney, a fiery fifteen-year-old, and her mother, Jackie, are both out of control.� They've had a lot to deal with after the tragic death of Claire's father - and they're driving each other crazy. When Jackie, a...
by Sara Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

A must-read for anyone affected by postnatal depression. Postnatal depression (PND) affects�10 to 20 per cent of new mothers in New Zealand and can persist for months�- even years -�if not detected and treated. Yet many women suffer in silence. In Mothers Cry Too, New Zealand psychiatrist Dr...
by Cassandra Golds
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010

Persimmon lives a solitary life, pouring her passion into the florist shop she owns in the underground railway station. Her only companion is Rose, a talking cabbage. Intriguing young men come and go but Persimmon has yet to find the love of her life. Several levels beneath Persimmon's shop lives...
by Justine Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

Poppy Greenwood needs money fast. Her estranged father, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, has promised to help - on the condition that she work on the set of his next movie. Although Poppy despises the world of show business, she has little choice but to agree. Hot-shot director Max...
by Justine Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Prince Alexander Davros is on the run. From the press, from his bodyguards, and from a secret that threatens his position as heir to his country's throne ... Journalist Maddie Lawson is determined to prove herself capable of covering hard news. She's fuming when her boss tells her to investigate...
by Charlotte Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004

Time runs backwards in this exhilarating novel from the author of the award-winning The Curative. The Montague family is traced back in time from Petone, Wellington, in the present day, to the amazing case of Anne Green, who in 1650 is executed in Oxford, England, but then miraculously recovers on the dissection table.
by Laurence Fearnley
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

In this story of male friendship, Fearnley reproduces the cadences and rhythms of rural life and offers insight into a provincial male world seldom explored in recent New Zealand fiction. Best friends Warwick and Dean live in rural Southland. Dean, a farmer, is single and lonely - if only he'd admit...

Twice Upon a Time

A very good very bad story

by James Norcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

An enchanting story of a story, Twice Upon a Time is a charming junior fiction novel by award-winning writer James Norcliffe. What happens when you find yourself trapped inside a story? What happens if the only way out is to solve the riddles of the Very Bad Very Good Storyteller, Mr Aesop Sod? And...
by Paul Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

Jesse and Aaron are brothers in their twenties, living on the family farm. It's not remote back-blocks, but it's still heartland rural. Jesse is a troubled, difficult, sometimes violent lad, always messing up and embarrassing his parents. Aaron's more sensible. He's marrying Carly in the local church,...
by Paul Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006

This superb coming-of-age novel contains echoes of Ian Cross's The God Boy. Both novels look at the world and family relationships through the eyes of a young boy on the brink of adolescence. Davey Ardsley is twelve years old, growing up in a working-class suburb of Christchurch in the early 1970s...
by Patricia Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

The Dream Sleepers - stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien. Also available as an eBook
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