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Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, he ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcast 'Exquisitely tender, beautifully written, funny and sad' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll lov ...Show more
Crossing the Lines: The Story of Three Homosexual New Zealand Soldiers in WWII by Brent Coutts
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. At the centre of the story are New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Doug ...Show more
Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
The star of Julian Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return - and finds a new friend - at a wedding to be remembered. Julian and his nana are attending a wedding. Better yet, Julian is in the wedding along with his cousin Marisol. When wedding duties are fulfilled and with a new dog friend in tow, the pair t ...Show more
The Wild Card by Renee
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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 suspects her friend was murde ...Show more
The Little Book of Pride - The History, the People, the Parades by Lewis Laney
$18.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely a ...Show more
These Two Hands by Renee
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Renee (Ngati Kahungunu) is regarded as a living legend in Aotearoa. Made an ONZM for services to literature and drama, she has been awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, the Playmarket Award for significant artistic contribution to New Zealand theatre, and the Kingi Ihaka Award fo ...Show more
Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize! "A tantalizing mix of psychological thriller and literary fiction...Mootoo brilliantly explores white discourse about qu ...Show more
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020 Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation. In the Black Country i ...Show more
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must co ...Show more
