Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage
Category: True Crime
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
Category: Fiction
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more
Snark being a True History of the Expedition that Discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock ... and its Tragic Aftermath by David Elliot
Category: Illustration
Gabriel Clutch was a thief and a liar but he was right about one thing. He told me he had a great secret in his collection that would shake the literary world to its roots if it ever got out ... So begins the delightfully dark Snark, a tumultuous romp through worlds created by Lewis Carroll and here br ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
Category: Best Non Fiction
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
Biter by Claudia Jardine
Category: Best Poetry Books
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more
Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens
Category: Best Poetry Books
Tung is the keenly anticipated debut collection from award-winning Otepoti-Dunedin poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis. Pickens is an eco-pioneer of words, attuned to the fine murmuri ...Show more
Te Kaihanga Mapere (The Marble Maker Te Reo Maori) by Sacha Cotter; Kawata Teepa (Translator)
Category: Te Reo Maori
A child dreams of inventing a new marble and having the recipe appear in the Book of Marbles. In a chaotic lab, with a sheep as an assistant and using ingredients as diverse as 'teeth bling from a retired rapper', 'three pints of swooshy night air' and 'a snippet from a sheep's fringe', the child light ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
Category: Biography
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
Category: Best Poetry Books
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
Te Haerenga Maia Riripata I Te Araroa by Maris O'Rourke
Category: Te Reo Maori | Series: Lillibutt
E mokemoke ana a Riripata, nā konā ia ka ahu atu i Te Rēinga i tētahi haerenga roa kia toro ai ki ōna kaihana kunekune i te Rāihe Kararehe o Tāmaki Makaurau. Nōna e heke haere ana mā Te Araroa, ka tūtaki ia ki ētahi hoa, ka karo hoki i ētahi wero whakamataku.
1916: Dig for Victory (Kiwis at War) by David Hair
Category: TEENAGE/YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Kiwis at War
As we Otago lads have only enough men for two squadrons, the General has decided that we are to be merged with the incoming Maori contingents to form a new battalion. Our new battalion will be Pioneers, doing behind-the-lines work: building barracks, railroads, roads and trenches. As you can imagine, Fa ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Category: No Category
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more