It is Boxing Day and the start of Summer holidays in New Zealand. The Armstrong family arrives at their holiday property to a confronting sight. What happens next to have them feature on the front pages of the nation’s newspapers and television news broadcasts?In five short days, along with a…
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community…
Hiding in plain sight just got complicated…Lauren Taylor and her young son have fled back to her hometown to escape fame’s cruel spotlight, and all she wants to do is start over. No press, no pictures, no problem. Until Nate Fraser, a sexy photojournalist, moves in next door. Resisting his…
What if the man you loved played a part in your father’s death? As an elite police diver tormented by her father’s fatal drowning accident, Piper Harland is forced back to the one place she’d sworn never to return. Her tiny hometown on New Zealand’s isolated Stewart Island hasn’t much…
Based on a murder case in a sleepy hollow at the bottom of the world in New Zealand, the shooting of a handsome young farmer Scott Guy captivated everyone who learned about it. The story is an inspirational account of how his parents coped with their son’s murder, their son-in-laws…
Excite your senses, rejuvenate your memories and best of all flirt with the edge of eroticism. Allow us to help you relive that first kiss, flirting with young love, your dream come true, surprise encounters, and your wildest desires… Enjoy these stories of love, sweet seduction, and steamy encounters. Open…
Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . .‘ Always italicise foreign words’ , a friend of the author was advised. In her first book of poetry, Maori scholar and poet…
Charting John Kirwan’s personal experiences as a father, and featuring the real voices of young people today, Stand By Me investigates issues around teenage mental health, with a focus on depression and anxiety. I’m a dad and I’m scared. When I say I’m a dad and I’m scared, I really…
Ten stories from the ‘brilliant’ Katherine Mansfield set in New Zealand. As Vincent O’Sullivan states, those encountering Mansfield’s stories for the first time have invariably found they ‘were alive, they were witty, they were moving, they covered new ground’. But with about 70 stories to choose from and a vast…
