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Best-selling author Dominic Hoey's much anticipated third novel.It's 1985 and Obi's on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dad's delusional, his mum's real sick, the Rainbow Warrior just exploded, and it'...

The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts ''Poignant, redemptive, electrifying.' - Catherine ChidgeyA novel about friendship and betrayal, ambition and grief, is also a study of homecoming and heartbreak and an ode to taking risks no matter...

Perfect Family. Perfect Weekend. Perfect Crime.Stay up all night with this twisting thriller. perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Liane Moriarty and Ali Lowe.Turner Corp, a luxury goods empire, has been rocked by the death of its founder. As his three sons gather at the family's opulent estate for a lon...

Jane Harper's FORCE OF NATURE meets the wild and atmospheric setting of THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah in this twisty stay-up-all-night thriller about family, love and loyalty, and the fight for survival in the most beautiful but dangerous New Zealand wilderness.On the remote West Coast of the So...

The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees.Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice’s imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running ...

is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief. Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013There 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 Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On ...

When her secret surfaces..can her family survive it?Meet the Tobin family.Joy, the complicated, troubled motherShe's spent her life running from her past while trying to raise her children as best she can.Conor, the high-achieving sonA high-profile media figure and CEO, he's walking a fine line betw...

This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have ch...

A novel about telling stories in a time of change.What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the future, during a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by pl...

A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire HarmanA beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories.Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre w...

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 situations in his community patrol, and boom...

‘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.' —ValdinValdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in ...

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore .' plunges the reader into the gruelling world of the long distance runner — every pleasure, every pain. Shapiro deftly we...

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 b...

It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men fo...

‘ is Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap with an added whodunnit layer.’ – Books PublishingPrince of spin and life of the party, Baz King, is missing. Nine years ago, at an innocent summer barbecue in Melbourne, everything imploded. For the Kings and the four other young families there that fateful...

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 ignored, and start to...

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine’s sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this grippi...

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Aue can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 'Perkins is an extraordinary writer.. is a novel to be savoured' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times 'Dexterously communicates some of life's less-syncopated rhythms. Funny, painful and utterly mesmerising' - Independent on Sunday 'The novel I would most l...

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 stories from some of the country’s finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these sto...

, 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, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two wo...