New Zealand Fiction

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...

Set in the 1990s in New Zealand’s King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the scintillating new rural noir from the author of When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole. It’s a beautiful day to be alive, Bill...

1942 in Wellington, and the war has never felt closer. Lorna's older brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as the war in the Pacific rages on, 20,000 American troops are sent to keep New Zealand safe....

Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for studies...

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger.In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is...

The unforgettable detective duo from The Doctor s Wife are back, and this time the stakes are even higher. When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town,...

From the author of Delirious, winner of the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Chemistry – first published in 2002 – is a riveting story about families in crisis. Jamie, a forty-one-year-old drug addict recovering from surgery, goes somewhere...

A story of two brothers, born and raised in the shadow of Taranaki Maunga, from major new literary talent and No. 1 bestselling author Airana Ngarewa.Kauri and Black's mum has been gone six months now. Their dad is...

Thea, a young woman crushed by guilt, flees to Central America to escape her life in New Zealand.In Guatemala, she meets the charismatic Chris and his partner, Sarah, and the three of them form a tight bond. While...

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,...

In the past we had always spent our summer holidays in remote places. That had always been my mother's preference. This year was different ...As the summer holiday stretches ahead, with her older sister more interested in boys,...

Two murders. Two decades apart.One chance to get justice.Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start.The discovery of a skeleton...

In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore Scheme. Gradually surrendering its dark secrets, The Book...

It's not beautiful, not at all, when it's there in front of you, but writing transforms.Makereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow she casts around...

The second captivating novel featuring intrepid heroine Tatty Crowe and the fascinating world of Sydney's Victorian funeral business, from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor. Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of busy undertaking firm...

Tenacious Maori investigator Hana Westerman returns in this stunning new thriller from the award-winning author of Better the Blood.In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki - a sacred constellation in Maori culture,...

Another case to solve for the number-one bestselling Bookshop Detectives. When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn't warn us about was the murders . . ....

Certainly, there was an uneasiness to the place Certainly, I felt like we didn't belong there Clay Eaters traverses a network of fault lines diverging and converging at unexpected angles: a mysterious jungle island, military reconnaissance training, the...

Poetry by New Zealanders whose lives have been affected by neurological conditions Poetry can be brainy, and the brain is certainly very poetic.The Poetical Lobe Project is the first of its kind: a community poetry anthology bringing together...

When Marg and her husband, Norm, moved from their farm in Southland to run a menswear shop in central Queenstown, they found the two to be vastly different experiences. After all, the needs of customers were very different...

1943 - Winton, Southland, New Zealand. Marine Randolph Harrington, the charismatic and handsome saxophonist of a visiting United States Marines jazz band, is found murdered by the banks of the Oreti River. Detective Inspector John MacBride is about...

From this day forward – when Evie uttered those words, they were about day-to-day survival in the midst of a world war. How could she have envisaged the future that lay ahead with her Kiwi soldier in the...

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...

In A Fishbone Church 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...