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Jason Mason is a pretty average kid. The kind of kid who always ends up with drips of melted ice cream on his sweatshirt. The kind of kid who puts cake in his shorts' pocket then accidentally sits on it. The kind of kid whose nana always asks if he's got a jacket it's cold. The kind of kid who is, a...

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 events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story. In , Kat and her whanau take over the...

Fast-paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama, set in Otautahi Christchurch, follows child advocacy lawyer Rebecca Eaton as she navigates her work representing a surrogate mother and advising on a child endangerment case, as well as trials in her own life. Professional and personal lines ...

Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best NovelThey never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me that day, she vanished off the face of the earth.A close-knit community is ripped apart by disturbing revelations that cast new light on a young woman's d...

The acclaimed author of Before You Knew My Name with another taut suspense thriller overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind. You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind.Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Bake...

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 take you into new territories - our lives seem arbitrary and unpredictable, as if at the whim of the god of fortu...

A woman who braved public disgrace to expose a brutal marriage.1838, England: When eighteen-year-old heiress Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, she soon discovers there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps Frances in isolation on h...

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 crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard - but Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignore...

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits - but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we're staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Ma...

Going Zero is a high-concept thriller from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten. Perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim and The Circle.TWO HOURS TO VANISH - Ten people are selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone on ...

A tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don't understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect?Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows...

the story of nineteen-year-old Erin, her older cousin Star/Whetu and an impromptu road trip taken over a few days. With the demands and heartbreaks of whanau, poverty and trauma nipping at their heels, Erin and Star trace the path back their whenua, in the hope of salvation - something they ultimately find in each other.

Poto is the perfect fledgling - the apple of her father's eye and a natural at hunting and flying. Anything a kahu is supposed to be good at, Poto can do best of all. She can't understand why her sister Wheta gets cross with her - it's not her fault she's good at everything! As for her baby brother ...

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 help. Only Ben would have been better off staying in that locker, because the janitor has a secret - ...

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 to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fell...

In an expansive new collection encompassing myths and science, the political and personal, the local and global, lyrical and technical language, from outer space to the microscopic, Nyman ask us to pay attention to how our present-day actions will impact future ecological events.These poems listen t...

The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empt...