Victoria: 688 books

Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and ‘real coffee’ to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka’s children are struggling...

Warning: this book is tacky, controversial and highly effective! If you are tired hearing all of the fluff about the law of attraction and really just want it to make it really work for you, then this book is your ticket. Learn the secrets behind the secret! Get YOUR mojo going! Learn to rock it out,...

A collection of more than 40 poems of various styles and lengths, many of which have an ocean theme to them.As well as having an ocean theme in many cases, the poems in this collection explore a variety of other themes, using a variety of different tones; some funny, and others of a more serious...

Selected stories from one of New Zealand's most well known authors, Ian Wedde. Largely written in the years between 1970 and 1980, the collection includes the award winning Dick Seddon's Great Dive.

Christopher Hare has done well for himself: one of the world’s top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, accompanied by the chic dining companion known to readers of his lavish books as Thé Glacé. But when the credit crunch ushers in a new age of...

Evocative and beautiful, this anthology tracks between the dualities of the rain-washed skies of Donoughmore County, Cork, and the Queensland rainforest and its national and personal histories. Inspired by the poet’s experiences near Blarney in Ireland as well as her New Zealand homeland and family,...

The world of our dreams is something more than our reality. It is in a dream where we can find ourselves in any point of space and time, where we learn secrets of the part, essence of the present and possibilities of the future. It is only in dreams where we can meet those who are no more with us, study options for forthcoming events or make our choice…

One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes...

The third play in the trilogy that began with Wednesday to Come and Pass It On.

The middle play in the trilogy begun by Wednesday to Come and set amongst the Waterfront Lockout of the 1950's.

Poor Penny hatches a plan to make her sleazy boss regret his harassment, bad pay and the long hours.Things quickly go awry as she trades her pervy boss for a shameless lawyer and then an slimy agent who catapults her to the gossip pages.A delightfully fun and trashy short story of a modern day Holly Golightlly's pitiful attempts at trying to strike it rich and fabulous.

In her first collection of stories, Gemma Bowker-Wright leads us into the phases of transition and transformation in people’s lives: a dream job, a rare afternoon between son and father, a man losing his wife to Alzheimer’s, a first snow. Like the Red Queen of Through the Looking-Glass, many of...

A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often deadly politics of mid-century China. Under the dual influences of her revolutionary parents and the White Russian intellectuals who are her tutors (and who provide her with a link, personal and tragic, to the composer...

Bianca ran from her past with the hope of being forgotten. Instead of living her dreams, she wasted her skills at a famous entertainment hall in Nashville. An offer to wrangle country music’s infamous bad boy, Nicholas Walker, proved too good to refuse.However, life on the road presented...