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Online shopping from Book Haven in Wellington, New Zealand where we stock new and second-hand, used, and pre-loved books with a strong focus on New Zealand Fiction, New Zealand Non-Fiction, Maori & Pacifica, Art, General Fiction, Mysteries, Science Fiction, Fantasy, War and Militaria, Philosophy, Vintage and more
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    Smith's Dream by C. K. Stead
    When Smith is left by his wife and goes to hide away in the bush in the Coromandel he never imagines he will become the most wanted man in the country. In a right-wing coup one man, Volkner, has seized power in New Zealand and is using army and special police to maintain his government. Smith's Drea...
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    Arty and the Fox by Barry Crump
    Latest in a long line of extended humorous yarns by this author, again set in rural New Zealand. Good mates Arty and Joe are willing workers, but only at one-off and unsuccessful money-making ventures. The Fox is a wily and overzealous traffic cop. Black and White drawings illustrate the characters'...
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    The Watersiders by Michael Davis
    This 1964 A. H. & A. W. Reed Ltd. Hardback is in fair condition. DJ. DJ worn and bumped at corners; tanning.SKU: 1574053 This image is of the actual book.
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    Miss Me A Lot Of by Louise Wareham Leonard
    In this poetic, elliptical, and deeply moving coming-of-age novel, the story of Holly, daughter of a powerful and charismatic father and socially anxious mother, is one about the fate of beauty and attractiveness. With nuanced characters and colorful settings, the novel's narrative shifts smartly fr...
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    Gold And Greenstone by Barry Crump
    Sally could do most things better than men, but it was difficult to get a job in a recession. On the road and looking for work she involuntarily teams up with an unlikely character and finds herself on the end of a shovel on the West Coast. A unique story unfolds of hard work and dreams, of gold fev...
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    A Good Keen Man by Barry Crump
    Whether ranging through the bush with sugar-bag pikau and stripped down rifle, or skulking awkwardly in town, wearing thick hair, clothes and beard, the Government deer culler seems as much a species apart as the animals he hunts. Often a solitary by choice, he works alone or with one mate for safet...
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    Bastards I Have Met by Barry Crump
    Bastards, as Barry Crump discovered one afternoon in the Timberlands Hotel, outnumbered heroes by something like 15,000 to one - an intriguing fact that had never been adequately documented before. Crump being Crump he immediately set out to remedy the matter, and the result was "Bastards I Have Met...
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    Wild Pork And Watercress by Barry Crump
    The Urewera country, in the Eastern centre of the North Island, is the largest unbroken expanse of native bush in New Zealand. It is into this harsh environment of precipitate hills and impassable forest that a young Maori boy Ricky and his Uncle Hec flee when the Social Welfare people threaten once...
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    Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
    Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow ...
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    Little Masters by Damien Wilkins
    A novel. It tells the story of young New Zealanders abroad. Adrian lives in a London squat with his son. Emily is nanny to a Midwest doctor's daughter. The story moves from Wellington to meadows in England. Damien Wilkins won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction with his novel 'The Miserables' in ...
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    A Surfeit of Sunsets by Dulcie Castree
    The seaside town of Taiwhenua is besieged by sunsets. They arrive every evening and don’t leave until dark. It’s the mid-1980s, and Shirley has just moved there from Wellington city with a box of books and a broken heart. The last thing she needs is operatic sunsets, the unwelcome advances of th...
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    The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
    The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty...
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    The Year Of Falling by Janis Freegard
    Janis Freegard's novel is a beguiling urban tale that moves from the hills of Brooklyn, Wellington, to the streets of Iceland via Takaka. Packed with characters who hold the reader to the page, The year of falling has the strut and gleam of a fairytale while not being afraid of the stuff of flesh an...
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    Kohine by Colleen Maria Lenihan
    "Tokyo is a humming backdrop to an array of outsiders: a young woman arrives to work as a stripper, the manager of a love hotel hatches a sleazy plan, a spirit wanders Harajuku, and a mother embarks on a sad journey. Linked through recurring characters and themes, these haunting stories hurtle us in...
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    Story Of A New Zealand River: Novel by Jane Mander
    This 1985 Robert Hale Hardback is in good condition. DJ. Dust jacket sunned, minimal foxing - otherwise very good condition.ISBN: 9780709022619 SKU: 1574222 This image is of the actual book.
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    The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013. 'There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease - they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere. 'It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. ...
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    Turncoat by Tihema Baker
    "Daniel is a young, idealistic Human determined to make a difference for his people. He lives in a distant future in which Earth has been colonised by aliens. His mission: infiltrate the Alien government called the Hierarch and push for it to honour the infamous Covenant of Wellington, the founding ...
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    The Scarecrow: A Novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
    Fourteen-year-old Neddy and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chicken-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into town. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is in fear for his sister's safety. Pop culture meets Gothic melodrama in this brill...
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    Milk Island by Rhydian W. Thomas
    This 2018 Lawrence & Gibson, Paperback is in good condition. Small stains to the cover.ISBN: 9780473397944 SKU: 1574530 This image is of the actual book.
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    The Ash, The Well And The Bluebell by Sandra Arnold
    Losing her daughter to the Christchurch earthquake sends Lily back to her childhood village in Northern England to scatter Charlie's ashes. Its a place of ghosts for Lily after the mysterious drowning of a school friend at the old village well a tragedy somehow linked to the death of a local woman a...
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    The Tattooist Of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris
    In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners...
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    Talking About O'Dwyer by C.K. Stead
    A new novel, about war and peace, and the contact between different cultures. The family of a Maori soldier killed in Crete places a curse on Donovan O'Dwyer, a Pakeha officer. He becomes an Oxford don; at his funeral the curse's role in his life is revealed. And the life of Mike Newall (an NZer in ...
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    The trouble with fire by Fiona Kidman
    This 2012 Vintage Paperback is in good condition.ISBN: 9781869793593 SKU: 1574969 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
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    In Amber's Wake by Christine Leunens
    Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend Amber Deering, an environmental activist, who lives at her family’s seemingly picture-perfect stud farm. Amber loves Ethan dearly, but not the way that Ethan longs for. Instead, the man Amber chooses is widower Stuart Reeds, a charming,...
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