Books set in, by, or adapted in NZ
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One Day a Taniwha
Tihema Baker
Pet
Catherine Chidgey
Did I Ever Tell You This?
Sam Neill
Remember Me
Charity Norman
See You In September
Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
Josie Shapiro
The Tea Dragon Society
Kay O'Neill
The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation
Richard Shaw
Poorhara
Michelle Rahurahu
Ordinary People Like Us
Kelly Ana Morey
House of Liars: A Novel
Jenny Williams
Every Lake
Adam Perry
The Hidden Way: Heartwood, Book 2
Juliet Marillier
Perspective
Shaun Johnson
When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole
Geoff Parkes
Dead Girl Gone (The Bookshop Detectives #1)
Gareth Ward
Stakes: A memoir
Noelle McCarthy
The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts
Christopher de Hamel
The Other Catherine
Lauren Keenan
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Jessica Urlichs
This Mortal Boy
Fiona Kidman
Rivers Ran Red: The Last of the Romans Trilogy
J.A. Grierson
The Road to Ratenburg
Joy Cowley
Mortal Fire
Elizabeth Knox
Inside the Black Horse
Ray Berard
Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World
Ruth Shaw
Flight of the Fantail
Steph Matuku
Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father
Diana Wichtel
Dream Girl
Joy Holley
In Lane Three, Alex Archer (Alex Archer, #1)
Tessa Duder
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