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What use is poetry in times of ecological and political turbulence? grapples with this question, invoking both human voices and the voices — ‘the silt and the slash’ — of the natural world.Powerful and illuminating, these poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resista...

The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book.A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure.While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chao...

An always hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking new novel from the publishers of Marian Keyes and Dolly Alderton.raw, hilarious and so lifelike I kept forgetting I wasn't reading about real people. I felt every frustration, every high and every low as if these women were my friends. A heartfelt, funny...

is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-s...

is a work of world-building that draws on myth, pop culture, pūrakau and science fiction – and the arrival of a dazzling new voice in New Zealand poetry. In the belly of is the Mantis: an amorphous, many-faced being, as fluid and full of history as the moana. It is a thing holding a machete in on...

A surprising and genre-bending poetic memoir about the years when everything got weirder.I write not to communicate or reveal but to mull and conceal, but I guess that’s a form of communication too, of connection, of little anchors, little hooks, little holes you can put your eye up to, your heart...

This beautifully written book which the author calls 'a fiction', is set within the real world of Canterbury art in the year of the earthquake, with real Canterbury people. It centres around a Belarus refugee who fled his country to find freedom. Sam and Gregor meet weekly to discuss art's purpose...

The poems in observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things, like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.‘Mischievously joyful, like being in on the very best in-joke. Jenn...

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some ter...

Tusiata Avia is an essential voice in New Zealand and Pasifika literature. In this fearless collection, she weaves together the voices of the living and dead, the past and the present in poems that are confessional and confrontational, gentle and funny. Speaking from Samoa, Christchurch, Gaza and Ne...

An unforgettable WWII love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington.Wellington, 1942. Lorna's brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as war rages in the Pacific, 20,000 Marines are sent to keep New Zealand safe. The Americans find their new post strange and unwelcomi...

Muru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put your hands on one of theirs and they had every right to take from you and yours whatever they meant to take, short of a life.Aotearoa in the 1940s, and the Maori men of Taranaki will not join the Maori battalion because they have lost too much alre...

In journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestseller lists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, new platforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, of bodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration.How to take the measure of this new rush of poeti...

by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story collections from Landfall Tauraka and Otago University Press, celebrating the art of short fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand.Contradictions, misunderstandings, oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges – these messy troubles a...

The new novel from international bestseller Anne Tiernan, with her trademark wit, sharp observation, charming warmth and devastating honesty when it comes to mid-life.Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only man she'd ever loved. She was sure he'd leave his frustratingly per...

Memoir, myth and critical theory weave through Xiaole Zhan’ s essay-poem ‘ Arcadiana’ as they explore their Pakeha-Chinese family. Meanwhile, Margo Montes de Oca’s ‘intertidal’ combines rich, elemental imagery – water, light, colour – with a world of feeling and poetic homage. In an...

‘ Te Whiu’ s poetic voice is bright, and new. As well as vividly poetic storytelling the humour here is mordant … in the best spirit of a bustling diverse indigenous poetics, it excels’ — Robert Sullivan The poetic visions of echo through past and present lives – memories are recorded an...

The debut collection of poetry from Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi) is a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding. It's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into space and become a second moon, it's end...

In the cold Wellington winter, Omar’s grades are slipping, his mum is unwell and his best friend is growing distant. Two decades earlier in Mogadishu, Asha and Yasser are falling in love and starting to build a life together while a burgeoning war threatens to take it away.explores the relationshi...

Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula, Wellington 1912. Doctor Matti Loverock spends her days and nights bringing babies into the world, which means her daughters - seven-year-old triplets Ada, Oona and Hanna - have grown up at , the once-thriving amusement park owned by their father, Charlie. Then a g...

Data theft, internet memes and giant octopi. Nothing is spared in this idiosyncratic collection of short stories. Nic Low looks deep into the fragments of society and finds people who are lost in a landscape of greed and technological confusion. His stories go beyond satire, aiming for the dark hear...

A hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an award-winning writer.I lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.Each becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.Each block like a sentence, each sentence an island, all the islands loosely touching.In her second book of...

An emotionally powerful novel about families and ageing, dramatises the questions we will all face, if we’re lucky, or unlucky, enough.It’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren’t falling apart, but they’re w...

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'...