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Dating the Kiwi Male recounts the dates of Kiwi women looking for a Kiwi man - the fun, the funny, the awkward and the ugly, all the while laughing at our own expense. What is it like to date the Wellington hipster, the Auckland yacht owner, the Queenstown ski champ, the Canterbury bogan, the Waikat...

Emma must race against time to break free from her father's mark while the drums of war draw nearer. The darkness inside her is growing, so too is the hunger for power, which begs the question: Who will she be when it's all over?Adrianna, forced to remain in Sheol with her controlling protector, has...

Paris, 1939: Gazing out at the glittering skyline, Evelina clutches the letter from her love in shaking hands. “I know I do not deserve you, my darling, but I pray that you will change your mind. You have my heart, and I hope that nothing will keep us apart…"London, present day. Blake gazes down...

In a world like ours, Mystics once ruled the night. Well, so long as they were men. On Ash’s day of naming, she chose the Mystic path nonetheless. The same illusions that garner gasps of awe from the lamp-lit crowds earn her scorn from the basilica. There is only one way forward: a perilous quest ...

A memoir of a turbulent time — and a chess game that broke all the rules.In 1989, two married women met by chance. They instantly hit it off, but little did they know that their new relationship would turn their lives upside-down.This is the true story of that relationship, which threatened to cos...

Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel’s (2001), Curnow’s poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand ide...

Childhood, family, and death; anxiety and release; grief and the hope of new life: these are some of the themes that underpin Michelle Langstone's debut collection.Michelle is interested in the way the concept of identity is shaken during a major event, and in the feeling world at its most raw and i...

A gripping new medical drama from the bestselling author of The Silence of Snow.Would you want to know what awaits you? Would you want to be in control of your life. and death? What would you do for love?'Sooner or later, willingly or unwillingly, he’s going to leave you.'The words cut deep. Emily...

Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife’s death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies; returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own; a...

Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better.But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridg...

Maybe they should walk away—but fate has other ideasBree:Her father's death two years ago has heartbroken Bree withdrawing from her social life and conversing with the spirit world. Bree is determined to make changes in her life. Drawn to two men at a party she attends with her brother Lance, she ...

A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery and courage in the face of lossHayley Holt grew up in the public eye. Now it's time to share her side of the story.After breaking free from the strict dance schedule of her childhood, in her late teens Hayley found freedom at the bottom of a bottle: she...

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage.In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in...