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Most people know this South Taranaki district, between Harwera and Whanganui, if they know it at all, for Dalvanius, the P¿tea M¿ori Club and that seminal waiata, Poi E. They know it as a farming heartland or a rural backwater. In this anthology of poems, you will discover that there is so much more. This anthology includes an impressive array of both experienced poets and tyro. We are most excited by the new voices we have unearthed. Skeptics...

Rosenthal's debut young adult novel blends coming of age drama with historical fantasy and political thriller in an exciting action filled tale that will appeal to teenagers and adults alike. Adele, Ben and Mark are three home school teenagers, each with their own host of issues that keep them out of school. When they begin a history assignment, which sends them on a road trip to the Waikato, they discover their fates are entwined with deepe...

Afterworld is a novella length work of magical realism with a whodunit element. The plot follows a ghost who ends up in a hut on a NewZealand mountain. As the ghost seeks to understand their life and death, fragments of their past are remembered. Contending identities, times and events emerge.

A meaty and satisfying selection of the work of one of New Zealand's most preeminent and prolific poets, tracing the development of his work from the seventies to today 'Johnson is one of New Zealand's most accomplished and inventive writers, at one with the word, its power, its airy fitness and everyday solidities, its resourcefulness, its craft.' Siobhan Harvey, Winner of the Kathleen Grattan poetry award, 2019 'The immense complexit...

Harry Blackman lives in the suburbs with his wife and son and works a banal corporate job as a mid-level executive. One day he returns home from work to find that everything has changed. As he attempts to understand this strange yet maddeningly familiar new world and return to his old life, Blackman uncovers the dark secrets of his unscrupulous counterpart and finds there is more at stake than his identity.

David Foster Wallace once wrote that "every love story is a ghost story." Not all of the stories in Jack Ross's new collection are about love, but certainly all of them concern ghosts - imaginary, real, or entirely absent. As it turns out, there are even stranger things in the world: from haunted hotel rooms in Beijing to drunken poetry readings on Auckland's North Shore. Or perhaps, as the Mayan prophets foresaw, the world really did end on t...

Charming, Entertaining Educational Fifi is a magical child. She talks to animals. A Bengal cat, three alpacas and two donkeys keep her company, and Fifi does her best to keep them out of trouble. Fifi's Fantastical Tales builds a gentle yet intriguing magical world of talking farm animals, ornamental creatures that come come to life, and cars that run on fairy dust. But the stories also have much to teach parents and children alike. Did yo...

Charming, Entertaining Educational Fifi is a magical child. She talks to animals. A Bengal cat, three alpacas and two donkeys keep her company, and Fifi does her best to keep them out of trouble. Fifi's Fantastical Tales builds a gentle yet intriguing magical world of talking farm animals, ornamental creatures that come come to life, and cars that run on fairy dust. But the stories also have much to teach parents and children alike. Did you kn...

In the tradition of James Joyce's Dubliners, Murray Edmond brings us Aucklanders, short stories that celebrate lives lived in New Zealand's biggest city. Through different time-settings, and narrative styles, the tales are variously entertaining, funny, satirical, reflective and tragic. Sometimes they are a little gruesome or absurd. Yet these Aucklanders often feel oddly familiar. Among them we encounter a scared RSA waiter, a Zen sensei who ...

Poetry that celebrates leaving, migrating and returning Debut poet, Katie Glasgow-Palmer, evokes those feelings that all of us who have spent time as a New Zealand expat will relate to: a funeral over zoom, a conversation on the plane, struggles with foreign cultures and languages, and that odd mix of pride and rejection that characterises our relationship with home.

All seems lost for the Elbrand and the people of the Regions. Tolth is a captive in Menden Maradass. Zard, the black knight, has returned, and with an army of stone-soldiers, has crushed the Elbrand in their forest hideaway. Corrupt Governor Demsharl controls the south from his castle in the City Amitarl. The north, meanwhile, is firmly in the grip of the Evil One who is dangerously close to unifying the Seacrest. Yet, bleak as things appear, ...

sketches: a trick of the eye outside my window there's a t¿¿ sliding with quick, deft movements between the pink branches of the spring plum with a touch of white blossom at its throat These are lines caught on the fly. Poems which capture and celebrate the momentary nature of existence. Here we find the natural world, and matters of the heart, caught as they happen in language both natural and precise. They are beautifully complemented ...

If your life appears to be right royally fucked from your drinking, it probably is. But the good news is Maree MacLean's book is a call to action not a death sentence. The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober challenges us to get more honest than we've ever been before about how and why we are fucking up our own lives.

Len and his father, Son, might as well live on different planets. If the latter is a puritanical curmudgeon in his late 80s, then Len, a recent divorcee in his early 40s, is interested in one thing and one thing only: sex. They couldn't be more different - or similar. They are both storytellers. So when Len tries to get behind his father's good-time stories of World War Two, he discovers that its horrors are right here on his doorstep - just l...

Lucina is a graduate of the Bratislava School of Architecture, and over the years has worked in a variety of disciplines, teaching drawing, life drawing and the history of the Renaissance at design schools and universities. A selection of over two hundred sketches of cities, towns and countryside from around the world by Lubica Lucina.

Flindas, Tris and Leana, carrying their fragment of the Seacrest are trapped behind enemy lines in inhospitable terrain. Maradass sends armies of horsemen, savage dogs and stone-men against the Regions. Meanwhile the green-and-brown clad Elbrand armies of the Iles of Zeta prepare to sail to their defence. Yet in the gathering epic clash, it is perhaps the secrets of the deep past, and the visions seen by Kerran, the young hero, on which the fa...

Normz Waiheke Stories are a historical testament to a changing Island. These frank and humorous accounts trace Norm's connection to the island from his childhood memories of visiting Waiheke in the mid forties to the present day. Norm recalls going to dances in the Onetangi Hall, playing cards under the light of kerosene lamps, and drinking homebrew to the view of the glimmering blue sea in the rough-and-ready days of old Waiheke.

Maradass the Mad is dead. Maradass the Evil takes his place. Black dogs, hunt the land, corrupted stone-men march under the banner of the dog skull, and a poison spreads from the Broken Lands, threatening the Regions. Can Kerran, a youth from the Dreadim Forest, Findas, an outcast son of a nobleman, and, Tris, a girl and a thief who has learned to live by her wits, unlock the secrets of the Seacrest and save the Regions? " Soon the others ...

Two West Highland Terriers, Jock and Lassie, are exploring Waiheke Island's Ostend Market with their mistress, Anne, and her granddaughter, Finley. As usual, Jock has a misadventure, which does not surprise his sister, Lassie. Vibrant illustrations by local artist, Sally Ewins, add extra fun and life to a tale that will appeal to children, and dog lovers of all ages.

Cryptic fable, social commentary, black comedy, subverted myth, potted history, cautionary tale, psychological drama, flight of fancy, slice of life, redemption story - Transit Lounge explores the artistic possibilities of short fiction while introducing the reader to an eclectic cast of characters confronting various personal crises during times of historic instability and change. The stories in this collection are rooted in a New Zealand con...