"Meet Joe. He's a nice guy out to catch a copycat killer. Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. He is not bothered by the reports of The Christchurch Carver, who - they say...
"A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate cannot let the police start digging because they will get dangerously close to the truth: the truth about...
"A South island road trip turns murderous as a dangerous drifter smells a secret in her co-dependence pal. Millionaire Kiwi conservationists learn too late how little Mother Nature cares for mankind. A Far North teen confronts the terrifying truth about why...
"In the enchanting town of Ledstow, where the mystical blends with everyday life, Esther is just getting to grips with being a witch and getting to know Clark, the local policeman. When the lead actor of a local play is discovered dead, it seems unsuspicious...
"New Zealand, April 1890. On a cold grey autumn day, eleven-year-old David Campbell finds himself shipwrecked, traumatised, and orphaned on the wild and wet west coast of the North Island. He is taken under the wing of a kindly widow on her rugged, remote farm...
"Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and...
"The story waits in the shadows. The writer has a deadline and the story wants to be told, but the story has patience. It is in no hurry.The writer gets up from the computer and goes for a walk, hoping the story will emerge and show itself, or at least give...
"The truth will set you free...except when it doesn't... Private investigator Sebastian Clifford and his partner Birdie, step into the world of celebrity when a star of children's TV turns to them for help. She's being blackmailed by someone who knows about...
"Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No room for lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should've been eight... They met when they were teenagers. Now they're adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others--and the...
"'He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities, ' reflected Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn on the international crook known as ̀the Jampot'. But it was Alleyn's wife Troy who knew ̀the Jampot' best: she...
"Japan suffers under a culture of overwork. There is no time for relationships or family as corporate bosses fixate on their harsh work culture. Squeezed out of society by this twisting vice are the hikikomori. Over a million disillusioned hermits living in...
"The last person Ellie ever expects to see back in Seclusion Bay is Sam. Widowed and clouded by grief, the moment he walks into her cafe, he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with anyone... especially her. So, when she sees him tie a letter to a tree...
"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...
"In the tradition of James Joyce's Dubliners, Murray Edmond brings us Aucklanders, short stories that celebrate lives lived in New Zealand's biggest city. Through different time-settings, and narrative styles, the tales are variously entertaining, funny,...
The worst has finally happened. The Melded Earths are in chaos, Hel and Kaia are missing, and Bast is waiting for the axe to fall at any moment. His only hope lies with the strange and blood-thirsty vampyr now part of their reality. When Hel awakens, she's far...
"Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen...
"We all know how this goes. Girl likes boy, a lot, but the boy? He's out of her league. The realization that you've fallen for your best friend is, for me, pretty scary. It's not that Reid is all the way in the stratosphere out of my league, it's more like I...
"Danger lurks in the darkness. And darkness lurks within her... Freya Willowray thought she had escaped her past. But now it is hunting her. Far from the wicked rule of Orlenea's new queen, she finds herself plagued by whispers of darkness - harbouring a power...
"London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick....
"From an Auckland slum to the heights of a New York boardroom and, eventually, an obscure and unhappy old age, It’s What Eddie Did records the rise and fall of Eddie Purvis, a rich and successful New Zealand advertising man, and his relationship with one of...
"In the enchanting third edition of the Mea Promissa Patria series, titled Mea Familia est Omnia, author takes readers on a captivating journey through time, destiny, and enduring love. This instalment of the series introduces a new era, a new set of...
"Emma Thorpe was born in the Cotswolds and raised by her grandparents. She believed she was an orphan... but her mother's old locket, a faded memory, and a mysterious bank account lead Emma to the colourful, exotic world of Singapore in search of answers to...
The bleak coal-mining of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother. Set in the 1880s, this is story of a spirited child...
"Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush. Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Laced...
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who...
"Mantrapped is a dazzling new work that continues Fay Weldon’s critically acclaimed memoir, Auto da Fay, and tells the story of a woman down on her luck. Trisha is forty-four and at the end of her rope: creditors are coming and boyfriends have long left. Then,...
"A thorn witch with the power to walk between the realms of Life and Death finds herself at the centre of a magical rebellion - and a dangerous romance - that could destroy her coven and her soul in this dark and decadent debut. Thorns, Tides, Embers, Storms,...
"For Esme MacDougall Stack, it began in an old underground boulangerie in southwest France. There artisan-baker Louis Lapoine introduced the innocent nineteen-year-old to the arts of making bread and making love. Then he broke her heart. Fifteen years later,...
Working on a supermarket checkout, Tracy spices up her life by imagining her customers are the great and famous. When she is sacked, she takes a new job as a waitress at the Taste of Persia. Saaman, the owner of the restaurant introduces her to a new religion,...
"Scarred by life, they have abandoned dreams of romance. Until love's kiss awakens them. Life is richer than he expected. John Forsythe abandons London for the furthest reaches of England after a series of betrayals leave him with the shame of a very public...
"Christmas at Hollystone Hall - At a time of peace and goodwill toward men, the new Duke of Haverford struggles to reconcile with his mother, who had tried to prevent his marriage. ; Lady Cicely's Forfeit - When she made the wager, Cicely had been certain she...
"An Angel, Unawares -- In colonial New Zealand, Molly faces Christmas without her husband. A passing drifter helps her keep her three children happy, but when will Rick be home? ; Anne Under Siege - Can this year get worse? Anne has been robbed, the frosts...
"Everyone knows James needs a bride with impeccable blood lines. He needs Sophia's love more. James must marry to please his grandfather, the duke, and to win social acceptance for himself and his father's other foreign-born children. But only Lady Sophia...
"Ruth Winderfield is miserable in London's ballrooms, where her family's wealth and questions over her birth make her a target for the unscrupulous and a pariah to the high-sticklers. Trained as a healer, she is happiest in a sickroom. When a smallpox epidemic...
"The beauty known as the Winderfield Diamond hides a ruinous secret. Society's newest viscount holds the key. Sarah Winderfield has refused every offer of marriage she has received since Nathaniel Beauclair convinced her to run away with him seven years ago,...
"The whole world knows Aldridge is a wicked sinner. They used to be right. The ton has labelled Charlotte a saint for her virtue and good works. They don't know the ruinous secret she hides. Then an implacable enemy reveals all. The past that haunts them...
"Long ago, when they were young, James and Eleanor were deeply in love. But their families tore them apart and they went on to marry other people. Paradise Regained - James Winderfield yearns to end a long journey in the arms of his loving family. But his...
"Elijah was the man Regina could never forget. Now he is back in England, but someone wants to kill him. Regina Paddimore puts her dreams of love away with other girlish things when she weds her father's friend to escape a vile suitor who tries to force a...
"As a child, Snowy White was found beaten and half dead in an alley. Seven soiled doves rescued him and raised him to manhood in their brothel. Now adult, he must rise above his origins to hunt down the enemy who tried to kill him. When she found herself in...
"Two Melbourne TV journalists are on a well-earned holiday, travelling New Zealand in a motorhome. Will they survive a monster storm and a killer on the loose? Kim Prescott survived a killer's bullet in Melbourne but can't shake the PTSD. For Jo Trescowthick...
"Havana, 1950. As the beautiful daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Cuba, Esmeralda knows the importance of marrying well. But when her father takes her on a business trip to London, she falls in love with a young merchant named Christopher.When...
"Raffaella Moretti, by far the most beautiful girl in the southern Italian town of Triento, is about to marry the only boy she has ever loved. It seems that nothing but happiness lies in store for Raffaella. Yet, just one year later, she is a widow, and has...
"Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her...
I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical Toxicology who lives alone in London with only her extensive collection of poisonous plants for company. She tends to her garden with meticulous care. Her life is...
"Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades...
The Dream Swimmer, sequel to the award-winning The Matriarch, continues the odyssey of Tama Mahana, grandson and heir to the matriarch, as he assumes the mantle of leadership and, with it, his grandmother's battles with the Pakeha. But at every step Tama is...
"As the launchpad of her planned novel series, award winning journalist Kelley Tantau’s The Runaway Man takes readers deep into the wonders of New Zealand’s flora and fauna as she tells the story of Nick Greene and his efforts to leave his old life behind and...
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, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex...
"Zettie's story is fluid and in motion, transcending geographies and time. She stops talking, at age seven, and starts to listen - to the worlds she finds in language and books, and to the people and places she encounters as she moves across continents. Her...
"The beam of a lighthouse - bringing hope, knowledge and safety in dark and uncertain places. But what if the lighthouse keeper himself is lost? In 1977, in the shelter of a remote Aotearoa lighthouse, Annie wraps her arms around her two orphaned...
Zeke has to stay with his aunt and uncle in Lower Hutt after a landslide takes his East Coast home off its foundations. Allie puts her drought-ridden Otago dairy farm out of her mind and catches a plane to the capital city. Stephanie wonders why she's sitting...
"To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand, this anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country's finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, voices and...
"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 writers from Aotearoa have each taken a city from their own...
Miss Fairfax's Notorious Duke: Having tarnished her reputation, Irene Fairfax flees to Devon to focus on her art. Her latest life drawing is going well until her naked subject reveals he's not the man she thinks he is. He is, in fact, the Duke of Redcliff, a...
"The Gang stole his mother's life. Aaron won't let them destroy his future. Aaron was just five years old when they took his mother away. Raised by his aunt, he's bullied by his uncle and terrorised by his three detestable cousins. All dreams of making...
In the movies, it's known as a "meet cute." But for Inspector Alleyn and Miss Agatha Troy, it's more like irritation: On the ship back to England, she finds him tedious and dull; he thinks she's a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there's...
"A contemporary novel set in America, this is a novel that asks the question, is a monster born or bred? It follows the story of two men. One is a college dropout, a young man full of grievances who is increasingly isolated from others in society. The other is...
"Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for...
Dana Osborne just wants to hang out in her guitar store talking music with her assistant Brody, and her colourful customers. But when once-famous prog-rock band Cranial Bypass decide to put on a reunion gig in her small town of Rockingham West, things get...
"When a distinguished New Zealand businessman is murdered in London, Detective Inspector O’Rorke is once again called in by Scotland Yard to help find the killer. But O’Rorke is soon enmeshed in the secrets of the past involving the chaos of the Crimean War...
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction - packed inside one of her own bales...
"Join Ornella Moon on a life-changing journey in Return Into the Unknown. When her life is turned upside down, she follows her instincts and sets out to rediscover herself. Venturing into unknown territory, Ornella encounters both beauty and danger. She...
"A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what...
My Promised Homeland" continues the riveting narrative as Sarah is transported back in time to embody Katalin, a Hungarian nurse and healer. Amidst the backdrop of historical turmoil, Katalin finds herself entwined in a poignant romance with Mehmed II during a...
"Mea Amissa Patria- My Lost Homeland" is a captivating book that seamlessly weaves together elements of historical fiction and science-fiction, offering readers an enthralling narrative that traverses both time and space. The story follows the archaeologist,...
"Ruth had a small family, lived in a small village her entire life, and experienced a small amount of life. She had friends and a roof over her head, and she was content with her job as a teacher. She was aware that she ought to express gratitude. She was...
"Set between London and New Zealand and intertwining past and present, The Time Before The Time To Come follows Victoria's journey as she rediscovers her Maori heritage and embarks on a path of self-discovery, unwrapping layers of her past to try to make sense...
"Even in the most secluded areas, one cannot hide from vengeance. War comes for us all. Feilece, a boy on the cusp of discovering an ability that can bestow upon him endless power, thinks little of the world around him. Growing up on a humble farm with little...
"Stripped of Sense and Support, Strength becomes Necessity. The Grothia is a family as old as war itself. A family known for a strength that strikes crippling fear into anyone who looks upon their piercing blue eyes, and yet, their youngest prince is...
"Dangerous Nazi Ex-Internees Roaming New Zealand.' NZ Truth ... Peter Fraser was our greatest prime minister on the international stage. He proved it as World War Two was ending and he played a major part in shaping the United Nations. In the process he made...
"A scandalous way ...to meet a duke! A Rebellious Young Ladies story. Having tarnished her reputation, Irene Fairfax flees to Devon to focus on her art. Her latest life drawing is going well—until her naked subject reveals he’s not the man she thinks he is....
"From the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz-and one woman's last chance to share it with the world. London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a...
"Beginning with three children in the small West Coast coal mining town of Blackball early last century, Solidarity traces their subsequent journey and that of their descendants"--Back cover.
"His family had lived and worked in Southwark for generations. The cobbled streets, old lanes and alleyways, and the River Thames, had been his world - the only world he had ever desired. Although she had grown up in Peabody Buildings, maybe she didn't have to...
"Sydney, Australia, 1933: Wealthy impresario and amateur Egyptologist Roland Cuthbert Barry is murdered on his 60th birthday, and everyone attending the evening's celebrations is a suspect. Detective Senior Sergeant Harold Chesterfield of Sydney Central Police...
"Kahu feels destined to become the leader of her tribe in the East Coast village of Whangara. But her grandfather, Koro Apirana, refuses to accept that a girl could take over from him as chief. When a pod of whales is beached, Kahu has to act if she is to save...
"This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand...Potiki follows a small coastal community threatened by developers. It is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child...
"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,...
"Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Māori woman struggling to keep her family from...
"Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb: half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption. What personal price is this man prepared to pay in the pursuit of his...
Single mum's New Year wish: Single mum Claire will do anything for her daughter. But when her Christmas wish is the one thing Claire can't give -- a cuddle from the daddy she's never known -- Claire's devastated. Until new colleague, nurse Nicolas, goes above...
"This novel follows Matilda, whose schoolmaster, Mr Watts, is the only white man on Bougainville. By his own admission, he's not much of a teacher and tries to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations, a welcome distraction from what is...
"It's all fun and games until someone loses a toe. Or their heart.The Buckley cousins are heading back to the old family ranch, years after a disastrous night of hide and seek that left one of them maimed for life. But the games aren't over. There's a high...
"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, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to...
"Imogen Maguire is bewildered when in 2018 she is accosted in a Melbourne Street by a mysterious stranger who says her grandfather in New Zealand needs her help. But her grandfather is dead, isn’t he? A former journalist, Imogen decides to investigate and...
Tarquin the Honest and Lunar Nix return with more underhand shenanigans and razor-tongued repartee to pull off a heist so big, bards will sing ballads of their derring-do for centuries. Created for the ancient dragons, a priceless treasure is kept under Elven...
"A prisoner of war's daring escape from a speeding train ... a Greek resistance heroine's fateful decision to harbour the fugitive ... and a young dressmaker's curiosity spark a chain of events that has consequences none of them could ever have imagined. The...
"A heartfelt novel based on the author’s grandfather’s life, a story of love, loss and joy that goes from World War One to the Swinging Sixties. Valentine George is an ordinary man, born in extraordinary times. He experienced love, loss and joy – just as we...
"Do you really know the person you have committed the rest of your life to? Are they the same person you married, once knew, or have you ignored those subtle changes and made compromises just for the sake of happily ever after? Perhaps it is you who has...
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many...
Who is the man secretly and nearly invisibly living at Thornhill, the house where Miranda was brought up and which she has just inherited? Miranda, fearless and determined, does not inform the police that a squatter is living in the empty house, instead one...
"Pedestrian Arapera ends up under an overturned car that careers up onto the sidewalk and she escapes without injuries, but her first concern is what happened to the little girls she tried to push out of harm's way. Nobody at the scene saw the girls, and...
"Haunted by the memory of her parent's murders, Chef Abigail Moore's life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. She is sent off to her loving grandmother who is fashioned from the same clay as she is. Gramme Kathleen lives in a small close-knit Roman...
"There's a world of difference between a mother and a psychopath. But sometimes, it's hard to tell them apart... When a young mother abandons her baby in a crowded park, Nora steps in to take her place. Little does Nora know that this act of kindness will...
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 girlfriend. Instead, she and the adorably monstrous Trillin find...
"One family. Forty years. The Waters kids - practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha - have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and...
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't care much about them. Kauri embarks on a journey into his father's past, to come to terms with the trauma he's experienced in his short life, and to break the...
Levi King has never met a woman he couldn't charm--until he meets Indigo Jameson. One of Brightwater Valley's newest citizens, the prickly woman gets under his skin like no one else ever has. Indigo doesn't trust people as a rule. She trusts men--especially...
"Elizabeth and Gordon Tregowarth begin their married life on Duffield Station in Skippers Canyon, New Zealand in 1887. When tragedy strikes Elizabeth's life spirals into an unimaginable horror. The story jumps a hundred years to the current owners of Duffield...
"When Brigit, born and raised on a high country sheep station in NZ meets and marries Jax, the son of a cattle station owner in Outback Australia, her strength and tenacity are put to the test. The differences between living in high country NZ and Outback...
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