Author: | Damien Wilkins |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Finalist in the Young Adult Fiction Award for the 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults |
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town that’s growing at an alarming rate. Ricky’s growing, too — 6’7”, and taller every day. But he’s stuck in a loop: student, ... read more
Author: | Lani Wendt Young |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
Awards: | Finalist in the Young Adult Fiction Award for the 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults |
A collection of 24 short stories; the joys and tribulations of being a woman in Samoa and the struggles brought to an island nation by climate change.
Author: | Becky Manawatu |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Awards: | Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020 |
Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020.
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 kill... read more
Author: | Ian Richards |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
18 year old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Dunedin, over to the West Coast and back up to Auckland. On the way falling in with drug dealers, a washed-ou... read more
Author: | Renee |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
Ruby Palmer has been dealt a rough hand. She was left in a kete at the back door of the Porohiwi Home for Children when she was a baby, and then at seven she discovered that Betty who stopped the bad stuff happening to Ruby at the Home has drowned. Now in her thirties, Ruby suspect... read more
Author: | Sarah Laing |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager... read more
Author: | Tessa Duder |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
The award-winning Alex books, which first appeared in the 1980s, are to be reprinted in one omnibus edition in October 2019. Tessa Duder's series covers Alex Archer's life from early in 1959, vying for selection for the Rome Olympics, her struggles during the winter of 19... read more
Author: | 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 p... read more
Author: | Greg McGee |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
Awards: | Longisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize 2020 |
Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Secrets tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult children. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70th birthday, the year ahead is told from four different points of view. A searing pictur... read more
Author: | Amy Head |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | near fine |
On tiny, isolated Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf is a treatment facility for alcoholic men. It's here, at the Salvation Army-run home, that three characters at very different points in their lives will find themselves gathered, each for reasons of their own. There is Katherine, known... read more
Author: | Anne Kennedy |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: | Longlisted for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 |
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she... read more
Author: | Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by) |
Category: |
NZ Fiction |
Series: | Virago Modern Classics Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective... read more