New Zealand Fiction

Look at her. How serene she is in her long white dress, eyes closed like a stone copy of herself. Perhaps she lives on air. We would like a little piece of her – a hank of hair,...

'Although New Zealand was the last sizeable habitable landmass to be settled by humans... the impact on its native forest has been little short of dramatic.' Cultural and art historian Richard Wolfe profiles the devastation of native forests...

'A masterpiece. An artist at the height of his powers.' NEW YORK TIMESYou need to know who I am.What I think and how I feel.Then you'll know why I did what I did.Imagine living in a perfect world.You...

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...

A young whale searches for the whale rider's heir and a teenager takes an epic voyage to Antarctica with a fleet of waka hourua to claim his lost inheritance, in this breathtaking return to the world of global...

The extraordinary story of a remarkable woman who has shaped New Zealand's history In 1988, Silvia Cartwright published what would become a landmark report, the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, into medical malpractice against cervical cancer patients. While many praised...

Two strangers from Christchurch, both damaged and disappointed with their lives, meet at a resort in Asia. Just starting to enjoy their time together they are targeted by a stranger who has sinister plans for each of them.Fighting...

Unfolding in the strobe-lit landscape of the club, this latest collection from Chris Tse reflects on joy, nostalgia and legacy – and what it means to make a vocation of vulnerability. Words hit the page like light on...

It s spring when Oceanic Airways Flight 462 from Hong Kong vanishes off the west coast of Auckland. Emergency services rip into action, first trying to locate the plane, which has 342 passengers on board, and then to...

Rejacketed edition of the darkly gripping novel by the Ockham Prize-winning author of Lioness Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite...

Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing – by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake. Equal parts workplace comedy,...

Jake Whyte has always loved being out in nature. Growing up with a single mum in a small town means money’s tight, but when he discovers an injured piglet while out for a run one day, he gets...

A love letter to modern fatherhood and being a stay-at-home dad by one of NZ's most popular story tellers. Louis Davis (Ngapuhi, Ngati Whatua) is one of Aotearoa's most popular storytellers, with a combined global audience of three...

When Alice was fifteen, her father killed Mia Heywood in their lakefront cottage before vanishing into the trees.At least that's what the locals think happened.More than a decade later, Alice has lost her job as a journalist, she's...

Art Deco glamour, a Cuban crime queen and a grammar-obsessed killer collide in the #1 best-selling Bookshop Detectives’ high-stakes final instalment. The Bookshop Detectives are on the case! Booksellers Garth and Eloise Sherlock (and their cowardly dog, Stevie) have...

From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and...

As a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophone teacher directs the girls...

The explosive, definitive book on how a far-right terrorist managed to escape detection and why we have failed to learn the lessons from Christchurch's shocking mosque murders

A melting glacier gives up its secrets, a man is murdered in his ritzy beachside home, and the Christchurch detectives get to work. Two mysteries, two separate investigations... or are they? A handful of Christchurch rich listers start...

A new novel from the best-selling author of The Space Between. Two worlds, two women, one story . . . In 1793, eighteen-year-old Catherine is sentenced to transportation on the Tempest, a convict ship bound for New South Wales. Trapped...

Leaving their Munich apartment isn't as difficult as Frau Greta Hahn expected. Their new home in Buchenwald is even lovelier, with Europe's finest craftsmen right on their doorstep. Just beyond the surrounding forest lies a work camp where...

A powerful and compelling new novel about friendship, false prophets and the lure of belonging— from the bestselling author of One of Those Mothers. 'Other People's Bodies is a tender exploration of the complex boundaries between love, desire, trust and...

The Fast and the Furious meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightfully fun regency romp from debut New Zealand author R.M. Caldwell. Lucy Elliott, the young daughter of wealthy socialites, sneaks out every full moon to watch the illicit Night Races,...

I am the wish child, the future cast in water. Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in middle-class Berlin, where her father censors books, cutting out...