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9780864736055
The Vintner's Luck (2nd Film Tie-In Edition) order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Elizabeth Knox
In Stock: 15
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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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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The Upraised Hand order quantity
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NZ$ 39.00 each
Author: Michael Steptoe
In Stock: 7
Based on true events, this fast paced drama will take the reader on an adventure in a spectacular setting. Through the drastic economic downturn of the 1980's, that created high unemployment, two brothers become embroiled in a drug ring and the rastafarian society who live on the isolated East Coast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Author: Elizabeth Smither
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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, die, Lola devotes the rest of her life to exploration. She takes up residence in an art-deco hotel, she befriends the members of the Sylvester Quartet after gate-crashing a rehearsal. She reflects on the different kinds of love offered by men: Luigi the Italian undertaker who buries a dog with its owner, and Charles the retired surgeon with his disruptive daughter, Brandy. Lola's themes underpin an exploration of love and death (including pet cemeteries), music and friendship. Set between Australia and New Zealand, it is a story both acute and amusing, knowledgeable and questing - much like Lola herself.

First published march 2010.
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9781869792886
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Author: Rachael King
In Stock: 6
"There were two rumours surrounding my great-great-grandfather Henry Summers: one, that his cabinet of curiosities drove him mad; and, two, that he murdered his first wife." Rosemary Summers is an amateur taxidermist and a passionate collector of tattoos. To her, both activities honour the deceased and keep their memory alive. After the death of her beloved grandfather, and while struggling to finish her thesis on gothic Victorian novels, she returns alone to Magpie Hall to claim her inheritance: Grandpa's own taxidermy collection, started more than 100 years ago by their ancestor Henry Summers. As she sorts through Henry's legacy, the ghosts of her family's past begin to make their presence known
 
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Time & Tide order quantity
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NZ$ 10.00 each
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Author: T. K. Roxborogh
In Stock: 5
Finalist in the Young Adult category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010.

How do you choose between love and honour?
Fleance, the 21-year old son of Scottish thane Banquo has been living rough in the woods of northern England since he escaped on that fateful night ten years ago when his father was brutally murdered.
He has never told anyone who he is because he has yet to discover who wanted him dead, but he has learnt things - how to survive, how to use a cross bow, how not to trust anyone, but also how to love.
But before he can truly give himself to the beautiful Rosie, Fleance must avenge the murder of his father and claim what is rightfully his.
Through good luck or chance Fleance journeys to Scotland and meets the charismatic Duncan, 22-years-old and next in line to the throne.
The two men are opposites - Fleance dark and mysterious, Duncan fair and open.
We also meet Duncan's sister Rachel, beautiful and ... more
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9781869507787
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Author: Joanna Orwin
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In 1772 a disastrous collision in the Southern Ocean saw French expedition leader, Monsieur Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne, bring the tall ships Marquis de Castries and Mascarin into the Bay of Islands, northern New Zealand, seeking fresh water and new spars.
Told through the eyes of André Tallec, a young ensign, and his counterpart, Te Kape, favoured protégée of local chief Te Kuri.
In a superb retelling of a collision of cultures doomed to end in tragedy, Joanna Orwin cleverly interweaves Maori and European perspectives, providing a vivid and compelling tale of loyalty, friendship, bloodshed and revenge from the age when European and Polynesian first stood face to face.

First published September 2009.
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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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9781869791087
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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9781869507886
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author: Michelle Holman
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Danny Lawson is struggling to raise her twin sister's orphaned children and hold down a full-time job in a busy A&E department. Then the children's American uncle contacts her out of the blue, under family orders to take the children back to meet their father's family. Danny's niece and nephew are all the family she has. While she'd be the first to admit that Ross's family seems a little unhinged, she'd still love to have them as her family - minus their sarcastic eldest son.A titanic battle of wills ensues... and the most unfortunate, irresistible sexual attraction. In this brilliantly funny and poignant tale of modern love and misadventure, the spoils of war are family. And maybe, just maybe, something more.

First published 2009.
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9781869791438
Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories order quantity
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Author: Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
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Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures.
This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart.
Lying at the core of our interactions, words are both salves and weapons, they can be simple and fork-tongued. How we read, how we misinterpret each other, can reveal the nature of our society, its diversity, complexity and richness. Written by a mix of leading New Zealand writers, with Maori, British, Irish, Polynesian, ... more
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9780864736161
Somebody Loves Us All order quantity
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Author: Damien Wilkins
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DoP November 2009, Wellington
Title change from "Speech Marks"
Paddy Thompson, speech therapist, newspaper columnist, is fifty and happy. His dark period is behind him: a failed marriage, a career crisis. Now he lives with Helena (‘the best thing that ever happened to him’), helps kids with their speech problems, and has moved his mother into the next-door apartment. His life feels sane and settled.

So what are these new signs of upset? One of his clients refuses to speak. Helena is under stress at work. His newspaper column has run out of puff. Paddy buys a bicycle. He feels, with a typical metaphorical flourish, that ‘one of those great wheels of life had begun a revolution’. Then his mother presents him with the biggest challenge of his life. What follows, in this wonderfully expansive novel, takes Paddy deep into the vortex of family love.

The book, boldly and exuberantly, asks large questions about how we express ... more
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9781921520020
Sydney Bridge Upside Down order quantity
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Author: David Ballantyne
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Harry Baird lives with his mother, father and younger brother Cal in Calliope Bay, at the edge of the world. Summer has come, and those who can have left the bay for the allure of the far away city. Among them is Harry's mother, who has left behind a case of homemade ginger beer and a vague promise of return.

Harry and Cal are too busy enjoying their holidays, playing in the caves and the old abandoned slaughterhouse, to be too concerned with her absence. When their older cousin-the beautiful, sophisticated Caroline-comes from the city to stay with the Bairds, Harry is besotted. With their friend Dibs Kelly, the boys and Caroline spend the long summer days exploring the bay and playing games.

But Harry is very protective of Caroline and jealous of the attention she receives from other men. And what looked to be a pleasurable summer is overshadowed by certain 'accidents' in the old slaughterhouse and a general air of ... more
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The Italian Wedding order quantity
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Author: Nicky Pellegrino
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Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded and sad? And could the man she's always held a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As Pieta stitches and beads her sister's wedding gown she uncovers the secrets that have made her family what it is and that stand between her and happiness. THE ITALIAN WEDDING is a feast of food and love. It's about discovering who your parents really are. And who you really want to be.
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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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Author: Thea Hughes
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Buen Camino - beyond the journey, is the debut novel of Thea Hughes - winner of A Woman's Write Fiction Book Competition. This is the story of Ana, a young woman rejected by her mother and sexually abused by her father as a child, who has carried the weight of her traumatic experiences long enough. At the age of thirty, she walks across Spain on the 764 kilometer medieval pilgrim trail, the Camino de Santiago, discovering its colourful history, myths, legends and beautiful Spanish countryside, on a life-changing quest to end her childhood pain. The overwhelming physical demands of the walk add to Ana's emotional suffering. Through an unlikely friendship with Richard, a gentle, older man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, she learns how to let go of the burden she has carried for so long. Richard teaches Ana to leave the past behind and to live in the here and now - as his illness has forced him to do. These two become improbable ... more
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Author: Deborah Challinor
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A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists.

B Format paperback.
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9781869791131
Prizes : Selected Short Stories order quantity
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Author: Janet Frame
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The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her life time and featuring the best stories she wrote. The stories included here were written over four decades, from her first collection THE LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES first published in 1951, right up to stories from YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE HUMAN HEART published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five short stories that have not been collected before. This is the perfect sampling of this brilliant writer's unique and powerful writing.

This collection first published February 2009, Auckland
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9780908990498
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Author: Maurice Shadbolt
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Winner of the 1987 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards.
For narrative pace and power, vividness of character and majesty of setting, there has never been a New Zealand novel to match Maurice Shadbolt's Season of the Jew.
Praised by critics and fellow writers in Britain and the United States for its monumental quality, it is the haunting story of a band of Maori tribesmen who, stripped of their land and sent into exile, came to identify with the Jews of ancient Israel and took the Old Testament as a plan of campaign against the British colonists.
First published 1986.
 
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