Set in New Zealand during the fast-changing, tumultuous 1980s era of the anti-nuclear movement, Springbok rugby tour protests, and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, this romantic drama is as unpredi..
An old friend, a new character - C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection.
In two sequences the poet plays with the lines of history and love, the fictional and th..
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Water..
In the shape of his hand lay a river is Iona Winter's fourth collection, and part of a body of work written after her son, prolific musician, Reuben Winter took his life. Here, through a poetic lens, ..
Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2021 collaboration On We Go, artist Catherine
Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle return with another collection of watercolours
and poems inspired by their contemplati..
The Incomplete Poems is both a summation and a wiping clean of the slate. Here, in their definitive versions, are those poems that I am prepared to stand beside as chalk and duster come to rest next t..
The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team from New Zealand and Australia were the first English-speaking team to ride the Tour de France. From June through July they faced one of toughest in the race's history: 5,47..
Iris and Me is audacious and daring, much like its subject Iris Wilkinson, who wrote poetry, fiction and journalism using the pen name Robin Hyde. This exploration of Iris’ life is astonishingly origi..
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964.
Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, ..
James K. Baxter was not a man of few words, and his private correspondence was no exception. Letters of a Poet, edited by his good friend and frequent correspondent John Weir, contains almost 900 of B..
James K. Baxter (1926-72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, 'the most human of poets': a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a 'lively sinner' who revealed himself fully and unapologetic..
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..
A CELEBRATION OF AN EXCITING NEW THREAD IN THE LITERATURE OF AOTEAROATo write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation betwee..
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..
In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion.
These are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls..
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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Koe invites readers to explore human connections with nature through a selection of over 100 poems composed in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present day. Including a substantial ..
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..
These poems are written with love and the best of intentions. I have attempted to use the traditional Korean sijo form but in English with accompanying Korean translations. They are far from perfect b..
In Letter to 'Oumuamua, James Norcliffe makes succinct observations about human life that traverse the personal and political. Grounded in the local but encompassing the global, they range through sub..
Fibs,
porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways
we can deceive each other are legion.
Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the new
collection by Otepoti ..
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..
In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation
that character..
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..