WHEN HER SECRET SURFACES, CAN HER FAMILY SURVIVE IT?
The tender, immersive and beautifully observed international bestseller, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Marian Keyes and Carley F..
Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse-dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted-has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish goss..
'There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease - they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.' It is 1866, and Walter Mood..
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 and hope. But water can be ..
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things?
Set in the pristine, precarious world of MoMA, The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexu..
The WHO has identified a serious outbreak of Alta Stultitia, or, Deep Stupidity that may become a Pandemic. Coincidentally, Dimple Potts wins the seat of Peapod in Auckland, New Zealand. The PM hopes ..
Four thousand years ago - a group of bronze-age refugees flee the salt-mines of Hallstatt in Austria, escaping persecution and probable death. They make their way across Europe and Asia, surviving hun..
WINNER of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel
'Funny, dark and above all, heart-warming, The Nancys is a celebration of what's important in life - which is family, friendship and also: ..
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember, for them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Ca..
A chilling new novel of psychological suspense from one of New Zealand's most multi-talented writers.
'When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring..
James Garrett was
critically injured when he was shot following his parents' execution, and no
one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When he does, nine years
later, Detective In..
A milestone collection to celebrate a milestone event - 50 years publishing in NZ!
To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand, this anthology brings together 50 enthralling stori..
In Emma Neale's first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fictio..
Funny and moving, this novel subverts notions of 'man vs. wild' while showcasing women's strength and purpose, and the power of friendship and laughter. Loretta is a school librarian, who embarks on c..
And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year..
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platf..
"My darling B, my heart, my soul. I only wish we'd had longer. Longer to search for the daughter that I should never have given up. The daughter that I should have been brave enough to keep, brave eno..
It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facing a season of upheaval. White men are whaling, sealing, whoring and warring. Creatures are culled, wo..
Escape to the island of Naxos with this beautiful debut novel about finding friendship and love in the most unexpected of places, perfect for fans of Nicky Pellegrino, Emily Henry, Rebecca Serle and J..
When you can't block out the past . . .
A compelling medical novel about facing one's demons, self-prescribing and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost.
Anae..
A gripping historical novel set amid the New Zealand Wars in 1860.
As English settlers wage war upon local iwi in colonial Taranaki, two women confront their pasts to survive the present.
Fr..
"The Spanish Garden is about memory and how it serves and deceives us. It is about the casualties of war, both the dead and the living, and the need to acknowledge the unnamed and the disappeared. It ..
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family.
Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tyre tracks i..
Tampa, Florida, 1898: a frontier where the old world meets the new, and where miracles of transformation are possible. Dominating the town is the new Tampa Bay Hotel, with its tangle of Moorish minare..
'Parry knocks it out of the park . . . Just plain wonderful' Kirkus
'A joyous adventure through all the tales you've ever loved. Funny, charming, clever and heartfelt, you're absolutely go..
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tr..
Rose Finch is the owner/manager of the Sunset Rest Home. She is determined the home will not be the loveless mausoleum of a retirement home where her grandparents Tom and Marjorie, who raised her, saw..
She will risk everything to expose the truth.
1943 - Bletchley Park, England
Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy..
A classic novel that became a classic film.
An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film.
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attentio..
East Anglia, 1645.
Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved Cleftwater. Everyone in the village knows Martha, but no..
Hold up your phone to take a photo and some people won't be there. Look for them in older images and their bodies are gaps, the rest of the photo still busy around them. People have stopped appearing ..
'Keeps readers on their toes from the opening page. His is a rare talent that continues to turn out crime masterpieces' Herald Sun
'A twisty small-town PI mystery with a protagonist I didn'..
A delightful, funny, and sometimes downright scary collection of writings from a group of authors in the Manawatu, centred in Feilding. This miscellany will make you laugh out loud, cringe, blush, and..
Blackball, West Coast, pre-World War I. Three youngsters; Pansy, Clem and Otto. Life had an idyllic surface with a far from idyllic underside for youngsters in this mining town. As a World War approac..
Friday afternoon. Trafalgar Street. School's out.
How better to start your weekend, than cruising the main drag?
But when Kael, Tegan and Freya annoy two women in a plus-size dress shop, things ra..
Tipping the Balance was inspired by love for the author's birth-place, Warnsveld in Gelderland's De Achterhoek; the seasons, small farmlets with golden fields, the leafy lanes and rivers flowing slowl..
Love happens when you least expect it...
Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her..
Something to get my teeth into. Something I wasn't altogether sure I could do. Hell, it was about time I had something hard-hitting, out of the ordinary.
Rebecca Thorne needs a story that will ea..
AUSTRALIA'S ANSWER TO KATHY REICHS. 'Dark and twisted, this addictive thriller will keep you guessing right up until the final chapter. Loved it!' Rebecca Gibney
Based on the hugely successful Ch..
Cryptic fable, social commentary, black comedy, subverted myth, potted history, cautionary tale, psychological drama, flight of fancy, slice of life, redemption story. Transit Lounge is a collection o..
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to..
Dunedin, 1890: Suddenly orphaned at the tender age of twenty, Greer Gillies is reduced to working as a humble servant at Larnach Castle, a far cry from the dreams she held before. As she struggles wit..
In this, the eighth volume in the Detective Inspector O'Rorke series, it is the summer of 1888. As O'Rorke prepares to leave London to return to New Zealand, Crimean War 'ghosts' of both friends and e..
The celebrated Italian writer Italo Calvino's novel 'Invisible Cities' explored the intersection of reality and imagination over 11 wondrous chapters. A hundred years after his birth 11 emerging write..
Even after visiting the Oracle, Adrienne still can't quite believe the prophesy. But whether she believes it or not, there is no denying the strange power building within her, or the bond forming betw..
It was his eyes. They made me think of glass. Transparent, blue glass.
Freelance journalist, Claire Wright, is offered a commission with the kind of fee which would mean financial security for b..