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An unforgettable WWII love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington.Wellington, 1942. Lorna's brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as war rages in the Pacific, 20,000 Marines are sent to keep New Zealand safe. The Americans find their new post strange and unwelcomi...

Muru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put your hands on one of theirs and they had every right to take from you and yours whatever they meant to take, short of a life.Aotearoa in the 1940s, and the Maori men of Taranaki will not join the Maori battalion because they have lost too much alre...

In journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestseller lists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, new platforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, of bodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration.How to take the measure of this new rush of poeti...

by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story collections from Landfall Tauraka and Otago University Press, celebrating the art of short fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand.Contradictions, misunderstandings, oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges – these messy troubles a...

The new novel from international bestseller Anne Tiernan, with her trademark wit, sharp observation, charming warmth and devastating honesty when it comes to mid-life.Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only man she'd ever loved. She was sure he'd leave his frustratingly per...

Memoir, myth and critical theory weave through Xiaole Zhan’ s essay-poem ‘ Arcadiana’ as they explore their Pakeha-Chinese family. Meanwhile, Margo Montes de Oca’s ‘intertidal’ combines rich, elemental imagery – water, light, colour – with a world of feeling and poetic homage. In an ...

‘ Te Whiu’ s poetic voice is bright, and new. As well as vividly poetic storytelling the humour here is mordant … in the best spirit of a bustling diverse indigenous poetics, it excels’ — Robert Sullivan The poetic visions of echo through past and present lives – memories are recorded an...

The debut collection of poetry from Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi) is a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding. It's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into space and become a second moon, it's end...

In the cold Wellington winter, Omar’s grades are slipping, his mum is unwell and his best friend is growing distant. Two decades earlier in Mogadishu, Asha and Yasser are falling in love and starting to build a life together while a burgeoning war threatens to take it away.explores the relationshi...

Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula, Wellington 1912. Doctor Matti Loverock spends her days and nights bringing babies into the world, which means her daughters - seven-year-old triplets Ada, Oona and Hanna - have grown up at , the once-thriving amusement park owned by their father, Charlie. Then a g...

Data theft, internet memes and giant octopi. Nothing is spared in this idiosyncratic collection of short stories. Nic Low looks deep into the fragments of society and finds people who are lost in a landscape of greed and technological confusion. His stories go beyond satire, aiming for the dark hear...

A hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an award-winning writer.I lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.Each becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.Each block like a sentence, each sentence an island, all the islands loosely touching.In her second book of ...

An emotionally powerful novel about families and ageing, dramatises the questions we will all face, if we’re lucky, or unlucky, enough.It’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren’t falling apart, but they’re w...

Best-selling author Dominic Hoey's much anticipated third novel.It's 1985 and Obi's on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dad's delusional, his mum's real sick, the Rainbow Warrior just exploded, and it'...

A composite chronicle of various loves—desired, lost, or never realised—and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake’s characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and humour, often all within the very ...

An eventful summer forever changes the lives of a family in the most engrossing debut you'll read this year.'I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn't want it to end. The author so effortlessly transported me to another place and time, and every character leapt off the page. An ...

A luminous exploration of thought by one of our most distinguished poets. "If sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head." Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, ...

Short, short stories, sometimes known as flash fiction or microfiction, are one of the trickiest forms to write. Create a resonant world in fewer than 300 words? Not so easy! In this collection of 100 stories, a range of New Zealand writers, both well known and emerging, deliver emotionally charged ...

A first poetry collection full of telenoid daydreams and androids in the bureaucracy.I was born this way.I was made to be soft and pleasant to touch.It’s the silicone. Father is consideringpolyvinyl chloride for my future siblingsbecause it’s cheaper. I hope you understandhow special that makes ...

When you’re Paula Green and the world contracts to tubes and veins, sound bites and zigzags of pain, when the effort to take the smallest sip of water is equivalent to walking up a mountain, when Venetian blinds dissect the horizon and all you love, then you open a room in your head and slowly wri...

From the author of Delirious, winner of the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, – first published in 2002 – is a riveting story about families in crisis.Jamie, a forty-one-year-old drug addict recovering from surgery, goes somewhere he hasn’t been in years – home, to Timaru, where h...

What would he have wanted? As little fuss as possible. But, reading between the lines: a little help. All the latest gossip and complaints. An arse that is not wrong. Opulence. One leap from the rope ladder. The final word. It’s What He Would’ve Wanted is the sixth book of poetry from the author...

follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance.From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother fac...

My father has been chipping himself down since he arrived here,he is half man and half vessel, readying for the journey to Hawaiki.is about learning to live with a loss that seems simply too heavy to bear.First, Tusiata Avia tells the imagined story – the one of how things should go – followed b...