Biter
By: Claudia Jardine
4.44
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine' s debut col…
Want to Read $ 15.99"At home, only he can claim the title of Professor, but the way he opens a block of cheese, is akin to unwrapping a bar of chocolate, by putting it in a food processor."-Claudia Jardine, Biter
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1. The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
By: Jane Hirshfield , Izumi Shikibu , Mariko Aratani , Ono no Komachi
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
These translated poems were written by two ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and… read more
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2. Aquicorn Cove
By: Kay O'Neill
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a storm, the … read more
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3. Paper Cage
By: Tom Baragwanath
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more
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4. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
5. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
6. Girl Juice
By: Benji Nate
3.95
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more
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7. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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- poetry
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
8. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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9. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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10. Poor People With Money
By: Dominic Hoey
4.03
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more
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11. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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12. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
13. Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised
By: Alice Te Punga Somerville
4.51
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. read more
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14. Audition
By: Pip Adam
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more
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15. Rangikura
By: Tayi Tibble
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more
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16. Needs Adult Supervision
By: Emily Writes
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever thought 'I wish there was an adult around', then realised you're the adult? Emily Writes, best… read more
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"You just love them. Love them till they’re full and you’re full, and love them more."-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
"If you had a natural, drug-free, unmedicated, vaginal, out-your-vagina birth, make sure you tell the world. You should never talk about birth, but you should always talk about it if it was straightfo…"-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
"Make sure you subtly encourage the idea that a c-section or medicated birth or a birth with interventions is a lesser birth, so that the other mum knows she hasn’t reached the pinnacle of birthing. B…"-Emily Writes, Needs Adult Supervision
17. Nothing to See
By: Pip Adam
3.85
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their … read more
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18. Bug Week
By: Airini Beautrais
3.90
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou… read more
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19. People Person
By: Joanna Cho
4.38
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more
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- poetry
20. Big Fat Brown Bitch
By: Tusiata Avia
4.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laug… read more
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"Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols <> when our grandmother is dead <> and our father is dead <> and our great uncles and aunties are dead <>"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
"Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the …"-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch
21. Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa
By: Toby Morris
3.94
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
Like scenes from a science fiction novel, COVID-19 spread like a dark storm across planet Earth. Wh… read more
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22. Meat Lovers
By: Rebecca Hawkes
4.20
Format: 92 pages, ebook
In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawke… read more
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23. Ruin
By: Emma Hislop
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they tr… read more
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24. The Artist
By: Ruby Solly
4.57
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so b… read more
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25. Dream Girl
By: Joy Holley
4.44
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she… read more
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26. Ash
By: Louise Wallace
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more
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27. Aria
By: Jessica Hinerangi
4.52
Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition
Where is my tongue?On display, a trophy of war.Where is my tikanga?Kept in the basement.Where is my… read more
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28. When I Reach for Your Pulse
By: Rushi Vyas
4.45
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in th… read more
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29. Biter
By: Claudia Jardine
4.44
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine' s debut col… read more
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"At home, only he can claim the title of Professor, but the way he opens a block of cheese, is akin to unwrapping a bar of chocolate, by putting it in a food processor."-Claudia Jardine, Biter
30. Talia
By: Isla Huia
4.41
Format: 87 pages, None
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a cr… read more
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31. The Dead Are Always Laughing At Us
By: Dominic Hoey
4.42
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The Dead Are Always Laughing At Us is a collaboration between Dominic Hoey and designer Trudi Hewit… read more
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