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Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen (Eds)

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Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a nthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand science fiction and fantasy ranges from the satirical novels of the 19th-century utopians – one of which includes the first description of atmospheric aerobreaking in world literature –to the bleeding edge of now. Spaceships and worried sheep. Dragons and AI. The shopping mall that swallowed the Earth. The deviant, the fishy and the rum, all bioengineered for your reading pleasure. Featuring stories by some of the country's best known writers as well as work from exciting new talent, Monsters in the Garden invites you for a walk on the wild side. We promise you'll get back safely. Unchanged? Well, that's another question. David Larsen is a Wellington-based writer and editor with a long-time love for science fiction, fantasy, and most adjacent genres or genre-like categories. Elizabeth Knox is the author of thirteen novels, three novellas, and a collection of essays. Her latest book is The Absolute Book. ...Show more

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Familiars and Foes by Helen Vivienne Fletcher

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An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts… At least Adeline can’t say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she’s gotten is her assistance dog, Coco. When a frightening encounter with a ghost brings an old friend back into her life, it seems like Adeline’s about to find the companionship she’s been missing. But her crush might have to wait. As the ghost’s smoky presence increases around Wellington, Adeline feels its hold on those around her tightening dangerously. Will Adeline figure out the source of the ghostly smoke, or will her chance at happiness go up in flames? ...Show more

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Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe

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‘There are some things you can never share with another human being. Answering to the caul is one of those.’  It is said that being born in a caul means that you can never die by drowning. Andrei Reti puts this prophesy to the test, time and time again.  But there is a price to be paid for each caul int ervention.  This is a novel about the dark side of being special.  About the war between fact and coincidence. About the things we can never share.  Read the Kete review here. ...Show more

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This Is Not A Pipe by Tara Black

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I've decided to document my life in pictures. It's hard to draw the pole, because of the pole. Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient. On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating pr inciple of the universe. He also thinks he's the hero of Beth's story. Beth is worried he's going to leave her. The creatures living in the pole may have stolen her cat. Tara Black's comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn't find another book remotely like it, you would win. It's a little bit about being married to Kenneth. It's a little bit about losing your cat. It's definitely not about the pole. I've been told I hold my pen wrong. But it's the only way I can. ‘One of the most potent, unsettling texts I've encountered.' —Tracey Slaughter 'Poetic, whimsical and painfully honest.' —Dylan Horrocks 'A strange and wonderful book, both surreal and very real.' —Tina Makereti 'A freaking masterpiece.' —Pip Adam Tara Black makes comics and sits in the front row of book events so she can draw the writers. Her work appears on The Sapling, Stasis Journal and her website, taracomics.com. This Is Not a Pipe is her first book. ...Show more

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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

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Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Now a major television series. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Eleanor Catton was only 22 when she wrote The Rehearsal, which Adam Ross in the New York Times Book Review praised as "a wildly brilliant and precocious first novel" and Joshua Ferris called "a mesmerizing, labyrinthine, intricately patterned and astonishingly original novel." The Luminaries amply confirms that early promise, and secures Catton''''s reputation as one of the most dazzling and inventive young writers at work today. ...Show more

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The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman

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A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, fla shbacks, and escalating panic attacks. Jodi Waterstone has only just started work as a first-year doctor at the same hospital in Nelson, and the night shifts, impossible workload and endless hours on duty make learning the multiple new procedures difficult. Both are trying to keep in control of their lives, but Rory starts to self-prescribe sleeping pills and sedatives to help him get through the nights . . . and the days, especially when having to administer anaesthetics to children in theatre. Before long, the sedatives aren't enough and he begins to inject propofol, a potent anaesthetic agent. Can Jodi save him from himself? ...Show more

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Huia Short Stories 10: Contemporary Maori Fiction

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Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: Huia Short Stories

The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Maori and Best Novel Extract. For over ten years, the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have organised this biennial writing competition to promote Maori stories and writers. Th e awards and the publication of finalists' stories have become popular as they uncover little-known writers. ...Show more

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Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh

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This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.

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Baby by Annaleese Jochems

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Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Fiction 2018. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', an old boat docked in the Bay of Islands, where Cynthia dreams they will live in a state of love. But there's an intruder waiting to upset Cynthia's plans and when a trip to an island utopia goes horribly wrong, a rot sets in on their relationship. ...Show more

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The Swimmers by Chloe Lane

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Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. ‘ 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, an d beautifully written. In this novel about a daughter's attempt to help her mother receive a merciful death, Lane has sidestepped the clichés, and captured the enigma of what it means to save a life by ending one.' — —Jill Ciment, author of The Body in Question   ‘Chloe Lane's The Swimmers has the kind of intelligent and beautiful quiet that explodes a brightness deep within the reader. It's an incredibly humane book that looks closely at love – not the easy, conventional love but the complicated, brutal love that invites us to at once forget ourselves and know ourselves completely. We are faulty and perfect in our faults. Sad and buoyant with our sorrows. I can't remember the last time I read a more generous book about care, courage and figuring it out.’ — Pip Adam, author Nothing To See ...Show more

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The New Ships by Kate Duignan

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Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to a trip to Europe years later with his family. An unexpected revelation forces Peter to navigate anew his roles as a husband, father and son. Set in Wellington after the fall of the Twin Towers, and traversing London, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, The New Ships is a mesmerising book of blood-ties that stretch across borders. A novel of acute moral choices, it is a rich and compelling meditation on what it means to act, or to fail to act. ...Show more

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Moonlight Sonata by Eileen Merriman

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Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

A bitter-sweet novel of forbidden love and family secrets. 'Some secrets should never be told.' It's the annual New Year family get-together. Molly is dreading having to spend time with her mother, but she is pleased her son will see his cousins and is looking forward to catching up with her brothers . . . Joe in particular. Under the summer sun, family tensions intensify, relationships become heightened and Molly and Joe will not be the only ones with secrets that must be kept hidden. 'No one must ever know.' ...Show more

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