Stories from home

Set in the Mackenzie Basin, this vivid novel is about familial love, friendship and how our lives touch, connect and impact upon one another. ‘The SUV advanced, without slowing as it passed; the driver probably didn’t even register...

It was more beautiful than anything I had ever seen and I didn't have the words to describe it. I felt it though. I let out an incredible whoop of joy and skipped into the air, laughing and...

All is well in Gabriel's Gully, the ramshackle gold rush town. But not for long. Michael and Atarangi have become firm friends with Siu, a Chinese miner's daughter who came to the schoolhouse to learn.

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē 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...

Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo's Mt John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th-anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on...

Fast-paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama, set in Otautahi Christchurch, follows child advocacy lawyer Rebecca Eaton as she navigates her work representing a surrogate mother and advising on a child endangerment case, as well as trials in...

Description: In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless,...

This is a ‘look and find’ book for all children who want to learn about New Zealand’s wildlife, focusing on wildlife that Kiwi kids will encounter in town. Stunningly illustrated by Ned Barraud, each page illustrates a different...

A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity. Dai Henwood wanted to be a comedian even before he knew what a comedian was. He always knew there was something...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

A novel about friendship and betrayal, ambition and grief, Good Things Come and Go is also a study of homecoming and heartbreak and an ode to taking risks no matter the consequences.After the death of their young daughter, Penny Whittaker...

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from...

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...

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...

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about having sex with someone other than their partner. And every...

Singapore, 1951 When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the lives of generations to come. New Zealand, 1984...

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,...

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...

Tracey Slaughter's powerful new collection of poems begins with the sequence that won the GBP10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize in 2023, opioid sonatas, which travels the jagged aftermath of a high-speed crash, charting the fallout of grief and the...