Mr Richard Henry was employed as Chief Conservator based in Dusky Sound, on New Zealand's lower west coast. Henry and Burt are assigned to catch kakapo and kiwi living on the mainland of New Zealand b..
In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Arama's aunty Kat was at the centre of even..
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily infl..
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Maori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his..
"It’s 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, New Zealand. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush, a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fi..
"It’s 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, New Zealand. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush, a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fi..
Super yachts and stereotypes, #MeToo blunders and post-apocalyptic bolt holes, locking down and locking up - a thoroughly entertaining novel!
High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a falle..
If there's one thing Frankie has learned in life, it's that you never challenge Worse. Because when things happen and you say, 'Well, at least things can't get worse', Worse is always listening...
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Linked through recurring characters and themes, these haunting stories hurtle us into the streets of Tokyo and small-town New Zealand. The secular city of salarymen, sex workers and schoolgirls is jux..
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional 'monster', Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting ..
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.
Each issu..
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays and cultural commentary.
Each issue..
Landfall is New Zealands foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, ..
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry,..
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry,..
You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind.
Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what happened, Ruth..
For readers who enjoy Jo Nesbo, and Ruth Rendell, this local thriller will have you on the edge of your seat.
Within the small suburb of Birkenhead lurks a monster, one the local residents entrus..
The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. Bu..
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes
'This novel is perfection' Glamour
'A coolly ironic look at mode..
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes
'This novel is perfection' Glamour
'A coolly ironic look at modern wo..
As seen in the New York Times Book Review.
Set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love a..
Film directors get to re-release with the changes they
wish they had made. That is called The Director's Cut. Now, Greg McGee has done
the same to his 2012 novel. Welcome to Love
& Money: The Wr..
Midnight Snacks
Six new writers. Twenty-five new pieces of writing.
Pack this book in with your lunch-box - or maybe have it handy for those bouts of midnight munchies - because this is a darke..
It's the chance of a lifetime . . .
Skye has just discovered that her long-time love is cheating on her, so the last thing she's thinking about is a wedding! But when her husband Tim tell..
I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected?
Max is about to finish high schoo..
It wasn't always like this... Mila cradles her mother close; only the bittersweet truth matters now but no, it wasn't always like this.
Mila is a child of the northern bush and she has a gift. Desce..
Lloyd Jones's dazzling novel is set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war. Told through the eyes of young Matilda and drawing on the elusive power of great literature, it has caught the imagination of re..
One of the biggest novels ever published in New Zealand, and a bestseller throughout the world, the dazzling Mister Pip becomes available in B-format. Lloyd Jones' novel has been acclaimed throughout ..
A bitter-sweet novel of forbidden love and family secrets.
'Some secrets should never be told.'
It's the annual New Year family get-together. Molly is dreading having to spend time with her ..
It's 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners' hems and pockets. In the fog and ..
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century.
In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of..
Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb's pride, by the rigours of family life on..
A stunning new collection of short stories from master storyteller Owen Marshall.
'So much is chance, don't you think?'
Accidental meetings, unexpected turns in the road, job offers that tak..
David Munro has everything a man could want - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a top academic position and a circle of devoted friends. But he also has another life, lived mainly at night and ..
Review by Janice Sinclair:
This book set in Alexandra Otago at the end of the goldrushes of the 1860s outlines a story of forbidden love in a time of cruel racial attitudes and extreme religious ..
'It's early in the morning,' a boy writes in his diary, 'on the first day of the first year of the most modern decade in the whole of human history. Get in the groove! Already the world is so cool. An..
Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight ...
On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose someth..
The Burke and Hare 'anatomy murders' of 1828 terrify Edinburgh, until Burke is hanged and Hare disappears.
Over a decade later, in the early days of New Zealand colonial settlement, a whaler w..
Alan Duff's groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New Zealand and now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompr..
A police procedural set in Wellington, New Zealand in the late 1970s The story follows the investigation of a missing 20 year old woman and the subsequent murder of a drug dealer which may or may not ..
'Domestic noir up there with the best of them. Beautiful settings, believable characters, and a moral quandary to keep you reading through the night - One of Those Mothers is a page turner in all the ..