Cuz is a story about family and culture, survival and love. River and Huia are cousins who don't get on terribly well. Huia is all about Māoritanga, w...
Wynter's Thief is a young adult novel about a smart, if bitter, thief and a young woman with extrasensory powers. Wynter is a water-diviner, used by ...
Louisa Alice Baker spent much of her early life in New Zealand, settling in Christchurch with her missionary parents as a child. She married at 18, an...
Kimble Bent is an enigmatic figure in NZ History - an American-born soldier in the Biritsh Army who deserted to go and live among the Māori from 1865....
"The Burning River" is set in an alternate Aotearoa, a possibly post-apocalyptic landscape where people get by mining plastics in swamps and making ti...
DaylightThere is no denying that Elizabeth Knox is one of the brightest lights in NZ literature. So, I approached "Daylight" with high expectations. I...
Dickey Barrett with his ancient mariners and much more ancient cannon at the siege of Moturoa: being a realistic story of the rough old times in New Z...
Originally published 1880, this is a short book consisting of four stories told by four men around a fire on the New Zealand goldfields. As you might ...
When she retired, Faye Hawtin refused to settle down in a little house and grow roses like so many retirees. Instead, she got herself a tent and a dre...
Robin Hyde was a writer and journalist in New Zealand in the very early twentieth century. She started out writing under her given name Iris (Guiver) ...
"Cockney Kid: The Making of an Unconventional Psychologist" is the autobiography of Victoria University Emeritus Professor Tony Taylor. It's a fascina...
I won't lie to you, The Old Whaling Days is a massive book. On my ereader it was well over 1000 pages. And it can be a difficult read at times - it's ...
I picked up Kiwi Compañeros by Mark Derby mostly because it had never occurred to me that there may be any connection at all between New Zealand and t...
The Te Ara biography of Helen Wilson says of her: "White-haired and blind, using an ear trumpet and an 'impatient white stick', Helen Wilson impressed...
Ian Wedde is a poet, fiction writer and critic, and The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home - a deeply personal account of his life and travels - w...
