Literary Fiction

It's Dunedin 1892, and the women's suffrage movement is gaining momentum. Left to fend for herself when her husband's committed to the Seacliff Lun...

It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are in...

Summary Specs Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless fo...

Summary Reviews Specs Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize In the twelv...

It's 1981 and New Zealand is about to host the Springboks from apartheid South Africa for a national rugby tour. The well-supported protest movemen...

Summary Reviews Author Description Specs The suspenseful and heartbreaking sto...

Summary Reviews Author Description Specs The highly anticipated new novel by t...

As a mortician, Seb has mastered the art of making the dead resemble the living. He’s embalmed countless corpses, unpacked organs, reset bones and...

Summary Author Description Specs In Auē eight-year-old Arama was taken by his br...

From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more th...

This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social ...

Summary Reviews Specs Not all marriages end in happily ever after... In their yo...

Summary Specs This novel is an urgent, crushing observation of adaptation and exclus...

Summary Specs Take flight with the ender dragon in ...

Summary Specs Travis McKinley's golfing career is over. After a string of poor perfo...

Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring! An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place. In Mister Timeless Blyth, ...

Summary Specs Notes The 21st Jack Reacher thrill...

Summary Specs A heartbreaking tale of two immigrants from different cultures falling...

Summary Specs A beautiful novel of self-discovery and new beginnings set against th...

It was old Ben Shadbolt, who burgled a Hertfordshire drapery in 1845, who started it. By way of a terrible prison term in Australia he rose to be ...

Summary Specs Notes Over 50 years in print! Poun...

Summary Specs Notes Witi Ihimaera’s first publis...

  Summary Specs   When it comes to fame and fortune, how high a price is too high, and when do you know that you've paid too much? This d...

Summary Author Description Specs They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a ...