'I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called the..
Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains - home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness.
From 'the Kilmog slumping seaward' ..
Tales of Fittick and Torry ...
The recent history of this fishing settlement on the edge of Aberdeen and the North Sea comes to life in this collection of reminiscences and short stories, bracketed ..
Impulsive. Brave. Dedicated.
Following in the footsteps of Colman and Machar, a young man sets out to bring news of Christ to North-East Scotland. Shipwrecked and alone, he has no idea how he will b..
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously w..
Two one act plays from two of New Zealand's leading young playwrights, which both began as hits of Young and Hungry Festivals at BATS Theatre, Wellington. 'Fold' is set among five grisly birthday cel..
A man and a woman-complete strangers by any regular measure yet, inexplicably, not strangers, too-cross paths at an exhibition opening one snowy night in Upstate New York. As if in response to some pr..
A moving, compelling story about society and our reactions to difference, convincingly evoked, beautifully written. A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven feet tall, his..
Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Tauma..
A captivating story of family and friendship through one decade of incredible change, from NZ's no.1 bestselling author.
In 1950s Auckland things are changing - and fast. Women are joining the ..
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty..
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear ..
Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, f..
Growing up among Mexican vaqueros on a small horse ranch in California in the mid-1800s, Jason Tralee, a self-reliant and resourceful young man, experiences an unconventional childhood, strongly shape..
Bestseller and international sensation Greta & Valdin has captivated readers everywhere with its offbeat comedy and quirky goodness.
Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used t..
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A distant land, a new life, an escape from the past.
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully a..
'The first time I read Freya's work I thought . . . uh oh. And then I thought, you have got to be kidding me. And then I thought, God fucking dammit. And then I walked around the house shaking my head..
Nick Harrieson's life takes an unexpected turn when he is accused of sexually harassing one of his female students. While awaiting the hearing of his case he decides to investigate some family history..
Against the backdrop of London in the Swinging Sixties, Penelope Lloyd-Hargreaves, recently called to the Bar, serves her pupillage under the supervision of Henry Morton, the senior barrister at Forsy..
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog...or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert...this is..
Two kiwi boys take a road trip to Jerusalem while a seven-year-old girl deals with the divorce of her parents better than they do. New Zealand's youngest murderer meets public enemy No.1 and a vodka-s..
Tart was a term aimed at wahine toa who were confident, outspoken, and Indigenous - mana wahine who were our nans, mums, aunties, and sisters. As staunch advocates for social justice, they questioned ..
Only one woman could help him heal from the wounds of the past. A laird, his chatelaine, and a love that conquers all.
Jean Munro wishes she were pretty and charming like her sisters-but..
Letting her instincts rule could mean her ruin. A prisoner, a clan-chief's daughter, and an impossible love.
Beautiful yet flighty, Eilidh Munro has caught a chieftain's eye-but it's not h..
Will she ever have her own 'Happy Ever After'? A disfigured chieftain, a match-making lady-and the friendship that turns into a once-in-a-lifetime love.
Neave Munro prides herself on her..
In this definitive collection by one of New Zealand's best-loved authors, Witi Ihimaera offers his personal choice of twenty-four stories from throughout his illustrious career.
The pieces span mor..
A case of bullying sees Ben Connor stuffed into a locker at the end of the school day, and soon there is nobody left to help him. Nobody, that is, until the high school janitor hears him calling for h..
Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflec..
Welcome to the Repertory Apartments-where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young son battle an infestation ..
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BEST NOVEL IN THE NGAIO MARSH AWARDS FOR CRIME FICTION
Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury has reached a verdict.
Two years earlier, Livia wa..
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around..
After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months - the poems collected in Hopurangi-Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramata..
The Hotel Theresa is a landmark in Harlem, New York City, where legendary figures like Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali made their New York stay-overs. After visiting this ..
In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other East Asian immigrants. Chris Tse us..
Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems. How to Be Old is an explosion of humanity on the page with some ..
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it.
Core Life Endeavours? Connie thinks. What are Core Life Endeavours? Is changing into elasticised pants a Core Life..
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists.
Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending..
The Treaty of Waitangi - dramatised and seen from a different point of view.
It is 1823 and Henry and Marianne Williams are on their way to New Zealand, full of optimism in their quest to bring the ..
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi..
In A Fishbone Church is the expansive, deeply moving and multi-award-winning novel that launched Catherine Chidgey's storytelling to the world.
When
Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene cram..