Kawai: For Such a Time As This

Monty Soutar

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t...

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi...

Sure To Rise: The Edmond's Story

Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson, Richard Wolfe

Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zeala...

The Last Secret Agent: The Untold Story of My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines

Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson

The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations...