A captivating story of family and friendship through one decade of incredible change, from NZ's no.1 bestselling author.
In 1950s Auckland things are changing - and fast. Women are joining the ..
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty..
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear ..
There was no one to save her if she fell...
The Hermitage Mt Cook 1946
When the volatile Stella is hired as a mountain guide, she vows never to return to a life of domesticity below the snowli..
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
Becky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.
Set in 1995 against th..
Growing up among Mexican vaqueros on a small horse ranch in California in the mid-1800s, Jason Tralee, a self-reliant and resourceful young man, experiences an unconventional childhood, strongly shape..
The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I'm George of the Jungle.' -Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' -Valdi..
A distant land, a new life, an escape from the past.
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully a..
Against the backdrop of London in the Swinging Sixties, Penelope Lloyd-Hargreaves, recently called to the Bar, serves her pupillage under the supervision of Henry Morton, the senior barrister at Forsy..
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog...or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert...this is..
Only one woman could help him heal from the wounds of the past. A laird, his chatelaine, and a love that conquers all.
Jean Munro wishes she were pretty and charming like her sisters-but..
Letting her instincts rule could mean her ruin. A prisoner, a clan-chief's daughter, and an impossible love.
Beautiful yet flighty, Eilidh Munro has caught a chieftain's eye-but it's not h..
Will she ever have her own 'Happy Ever After'? A disfigured chieftain, a match-making lady-and the friendship that turns into a once-in-a-lifetime love.
Neave Munro prides herself on her..
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 h..
Welcome to the Repertory Apartments-where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young son battle an infestation ..
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around..
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with y..
Sian's world thinks she's dead. Trillin's wants to make sure of it. And the world they escaped to together just threw a dragon at them.
All Sian wanted was a quiet moment to pash her new girlfrie..
Life is tough when you're an eldritch abomination.
Trillin isn't technically a person. She's a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it..
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it.
Core Life Endeavours? Connie thinks. What are Core Life Endeavours? Is changing into elasticised pants a Core Life..
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists.
Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending..
The Treaty of Waitangi - dramatised and seen from a different point of view.
It is 1823 and Henry and Marianne Williams are on their way to New Zealand, full of optimism in their quest to bring the ..
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..
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..
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..
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..