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The Angel's Cut order quantity
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Author: Elizabeth Knox
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Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: the movies have burst into song and speech, and aircraft into the skies at speed. Into this world of soundstages and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, with his German passport and his broken heart, determined only to go on living in the air. What does it take to turn a wind? Will it be Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. Or will it be Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no-one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed -- Lucifer, who has lost him once but won't let that be the end of it. What does it take to turn a wind? Mountains. Or another wind.

First published June 2009, Wellington
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As the Earth Turns Silver : A novel order quantity
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Author: Alison Wong
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Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. The area known as Haining Street has an infamous reputation in the city, allegedly full of opium dens, weird food, gambling and strange Chinese cultural practices. Nice Europeans stay away. But for the tiny number of Wellington Chinese, it is a safe haven, a refuge from the scarcely believable and often violent anti-Chinese racism which pervades the wider Wellington community.This is the setting for an unlikely love story. Katherine is a lonely European widow struggling to support her children. Yung is a young Chinese man who runs a vegetable shop. We also learn he has a wife back in China. At first tentative, their love affair is conducted in secret, away from the daylight. Later, they grow in confidence. But in this climate how can a European woman have a successful relationship with a Chinese man? When her ... more
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The 10 PM Question order quantity
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Author: Kate De Goldi
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2009 Montana Book Awards Reader's Choice Winner
FICTION Category Runner-up

Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man : an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head.
'Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms?'
'Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it?'
'Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a
galloping cancer?'

Most of the significant people in Frankie’s world – his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend Gigs – seem gloriously untroubled by worry.
Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 p.m. queries.
But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask.
Then the new girl arrives at ... more
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Inheritance order quantity
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Author: Jenny Pattrick
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Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. But why should Jeanie
avoid her after twenty-four years apart? They had been so close when they were young women, when Jeanie
had turned up in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father, who had unexpectedly inherited a
plantation there. Elena's confusion turns to intrigue when she discovers the gallery is exhibiting the work of
Jeanie's daughter, a daughter Elena had been unaware even existed but who shows definite hints of Samoan
ancestry. Was there more to Jeanie's flirtation with Elena's brother than Elena had realised, or are there other
secrets to uncover?

A compelling novel that takes us to Samoa in the 1960s and NZ in the 1990s.

First published March 2010.

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Author: Stephanie Johnson
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Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours in Herne Bay at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor. Swimmers' Rope is a powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. 'Johnson's writing is skilful, insightful, witty and she has a truly light touch.' - Margie Thomson, The New Zealand Herald 'Immensely satisfying, utterly believable, Music From A Distant Room is Stephanie Johnson in top form. She has written the ... more
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Access Road order quantity
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Author: Maurice Gee
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This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealand fiction doesn't get any better than this. Three brothers and sisters, all now in their eighties, two of them living in the old family home, are struggling to cope with events that have happened way back in the past. It all bursts into the open when an old school friend visits Loomis, with malice in his heart. He keeps the biggest secret of all, about the disappearance of a girl many years before. As the novel reaches its climax, the tensions reach breaking point, and violence breaks out. The death of one of the protagonists seems inevitable.

First published October 2009.
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Spectrum 6: An anthology of comtemporary short stories order quantity
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Author: et al
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"We've, like, converged from all over the world for this adventure; bailed from a whole host of dull conventional lives to break the mould. We're on the same journey, walking the same walk, talking the same talk and sharing a whole new high in a bold new land."

These stories - fresh, bold, and exciting - push past old boundaries, suggest new directions, and offer fresh perspectives on who we are and the world we live in ...
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The Six Pack (NZ Book Month 2006) order quantity
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Author: Various authors
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An anthology to commemorate NZ Book Month.

Crack into this sampler of new Kiwi writing. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, these six pieces by emerging and established authors prove that New Zealand's imaginative life is robust an ddiverse. Imbibe one story a night or go on a bender and down all six in one sitting.

"That stack beside your bed just got taller - put this at the top." - John Campbell
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The Six Pack Three (NZ Book month 2008) order quantity
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Author: Various
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The Six Pack is back! Six succulent segments of winning New Zealand writing to satisfy the appetite of the most ravenous reader. Sip quietly on a man's domestic alienation, spoon up some childhood pay, chew on the racial tension of '80s South Auckland, nibble at the cat-and-mouse game of a man and his taunting reflection, munch on the life and times of a visionary messiah and crunch up poems and race, blood and anger.
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The Six Pack Two (NZ Book Month 2007) order quantity
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Author: Winning Writing from NZ Book Month
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An anthology to commemorate NZ Book Month.

Hundreds of writers chanced their luck in a competition. Celebrity judges and New Zealand readers made their pick. The odds are in your favour with this six-sided picture of contemporary New Zealand writing.

"Six writers for six dollars. It's a good deal all right." - Dominion Post

In this collection : Faith Oxenbridge, Elizabeth Smither, Charlotte Grimshaw, Dave Armstrong, Jennifer Lane & Tracey Slaughter.

First publishd September 2007.
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The Vintner's Luck (2nd Film Tie-In Edition) order quantity
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Author: Elizabeth Knox
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One summer evening in 1808, Sobran Jodeau stumbles through his family's vineyard in Burgundy, filled with wine and love sorrows. As Sobran sways in a drunken swoon, an angel appears out of nowhere to catch him.
Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be far more mysterious than angelic.
Compelling and erotic, The Vintner's Luck is a decidedly unorthodox love story, one that presents angels as fierce and beautiful as Milton's, and a vision of Heaven, Hell, and the vineyards in between that is unforgettable.

Director Niki Caro's film of The Vintner's Luck is due for release in 2009.

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Anna Kavan's New Zealand : A pacific interlude in a turbulent life order quantity
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Author: Anna Kavan (ed. Jennifer Sturm)
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New Zealanders live 'in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home', wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943.

Her seemingly negative comments created a stir both in the UK and New Zealand and suggested Kavan felt nothing but antipathy for the country.
However, in researching this prize-winning author of nineteen books, Dr Jennifer Sturm uncovered letters and unpublished short stories written during Kavan's sojourn in New Zealand that show a more complex, affectionate and significant response. Those stories are published here for the first time, along with a fascinating discussion of this experimental writer and talented artist, who struggled with bouts of depression and insecurity, as well as heroin addiction and a stream of unconventional love affairs.
Kavan roamed the world trying to find a home, and although her stay in New Zealand was for less than two years, her stories reveal a ... more
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Dead People's Music : A novel order quantity
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Author: Sarah Laing
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Classical is karaoke - just playing covers of dead people's music - or so Wellingtonian Hannah concluded at her London conservatorium. She's sabotaged her scholarship there, but wants to keep playing the cello, like her grandmother, Klara. Now unmoored from her classical training, she's in New York City, where Klara grew up. As Hannah investigates her Jewish-refugee heritage, she starts to compose her own songs, but has to contend with diabetes and other burning issues:
Is she with the right man, or should she swap stability for lust? And how much longer can she live with a neurotic, junk-scavenging flatmate, on the verge of murdering another zebra fish?
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Edwin and Matilda order quantity
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Author: Laurence Fearnley
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This beautifully written novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual friendship formed between 62-year-old photographer Edwin and 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting photographs for her wedding. Brought together, Edwin and Matilda embark on a search for Edwin's mother, a woman he has long believed dead. The journey involves a series of telling, sometimes agonising, discoveries by Edwin - all the while with Matilda by his side. Along the journey, Edwin and Matilda develop an increasingly intense relationship, one which grows in ways neither of them could possibly have predicted.


First published September 2007
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Huia Short Stories 8 : Contemporary Maori stories order quantity
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Author: Huia Press editors
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Here are the best short stories as and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers 2009, as judged by David Geary, Julian Wilcox and Briar Grace-Smith. For over ten years the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have been organising this unique and increasingly popular biennial writing competition, producing award-winning Maori writers. The awards and their subsequent publications have become well-known and much-anticipated as they bring more undiscovered gems to the attention of the New Zealand reading public. Past winners and finalists include James George, Briar Grace-Smith, Isabel Waiti-Mulholland, Kelly AnaMorey and Paula Morris.
 
Ka Shue - Letters Home & Foh Sarn - Fire Mountain order quantity
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Author: Lynda Chanwai-Earle
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Ka Shue first published 1997; Foh Sarn 2003.
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Landfall 218: Islands (November 2009) order quantity
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Author: Edited by David Eggleton
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New Zealand Aotearoa is located on the map as one point of the Polynesian triangle — part of an oceanic scatter of islands. It is a nation characterised by dual settlement — Polynesian, then European — which more recently has welcomed a global diversity of new migrants and settlers.

Landfall 218 draws on our hybrid culture, celebrating a heritage of the bicultural and multicultural.
While submissions were actively sought from contributors of Maori and Pacific Island heritage, ‘Islands’ also implies communities, villages, self-contained entities, and even margins moving into the mainstream, the world currents of culture. Consequently the issue flings the net wide and keeps the definition broad.

Announces/publishes the winner/s of the Landfall Essay Competition 2009
Celebrates centenary of Landfall founder Charles Brasch's birth
Announces winner of The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2009
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Mister Pip order quantity
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Author: Lloyd Jones
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One of the biggest novels ever published in New Zealand, and a bestseller throughout the world. Lloyd Jones' dazzling novel has been acclaimed throughout the world as a love song to the power of the imagination and of storytelling. It shows how books can change lives.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008

First published 2006.
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Nights in the Gardens of Spain order quantity
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Author: Witi Ihimaera
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David Munro has everything a man could want - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a top academic position and a circle of devoted friends. But he also has another life, lived mainly at night and frequently in what he comes to know as 'The Gardens of Spain', the places where gay and bisexual men meet. Now he must choose which of these two lives to follow ...Now in its fourth edition, Nights in the Gardens of Spain takes us along the precarious divide between sexuality and social mores, exploring dilemmas of contemporary gay culture with anger, laughter, sensitivity and honesty.
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Potiki order quantity
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Author: Patricia Grace
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In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rage threaten to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn.

First published 1986.
 
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