Fiction

This latest addition to this successful series offers a new selection of myths, featuring Arthur's knights of the round table, his love for Queen G...

No matter where we are in the world, when nature calls, there's only one place to go . . . What started as a curious hobby for author Kris Mikkelso...

A wonderful collection of stories and memoir from childhood. Childhood is at times joyful, at times traumatic. In this anthology twenty-six disting...

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 es...

A dying Hitler dictates his memoirs to a personal aide whilst his top commanders plot against each other to see who will become the next Fuhrer. Me...

She's six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushin...

"I am two people now. I have split. One of us will be seeing Caroline's fiance later this evening. The other is smiling politely. He is a square of...

Christel is at shattering point. She's got two small children, her job in reality television is super high stress, she's an activist with Women Aga...

The Izu Dancer, Yasunari Kawabata's first work to bring him recognition as a writer, is a novella about six Izu Peninsula travellers. As the six tr...

Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of h...

A colleaction of poetry by Maris O'Rourke.

A huge selection of Shadbolt's best stories written over a forty-year period, including his three Mansfield Short Story Award winners. AUTHOR: Maur...

It was old Ben Shadbolt, who burgled a Hertfordshire drapery in 1845, who started it. By way of a terrible prison term in Australia he rose to be ...

In New Sea Land, Tim Jones tells the intimate story of the land and the sea. Awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors' Janet Frame Memorial Award...

This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social ...

Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the po...

A chain of events sparked by a murder in a cemetery sends tattoo artist Lestari Cassidy into the orbit of an unpredictable drug. Its connection to ...

Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter's night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of s...

As a mortician, Seb has mastered the art of making the dead resemble the living. He’s embalmed countless corpses, unpacked organs, reset bones and...

It's 1981 and New Zealand is about to host the Springboks from apartheid South Africa for a national rugby tour. The well-supported protest movemen...

It's Dunedin 1892, and the women's suffrage movement is gaining momentum. Left to fend for herself when her husband's committed to the Seacliff Lun...

What does the decorous lawyer Walter Dove, inventively sailing the globe solo, have in common with the lonely sponster Rose Lightfoot, busy with he...

18 year old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, hitchhiking from Pa...

After months of researching butterflies in Sāmoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn’t...