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A stunning debut novel about love, guilt and forgiveness. If you loved Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro, you will adore The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds. Thea, a young woman crippled by guilt, flees to Central America to escape her life. In Guatemala, she...

A sexy, blackly comic mystery, where the impossibility of closure and a desire to fix the past collide. All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins has returned to Aotearoa-New Zealand to fulfil family duties for the mother and brother she's barely seen since making her small-town escape as a teen...

QVB FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH BOOKTOPIA BOOK OF THE MONTH As the long summer holiday stretches ahead, with her older sister more interested in boys, her mother disappearing on long walks and her father, beer in hand, watching the cricket, the youngest in the family often finds herself alone. At...

A New York Times Best Thriller of 2025 Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil. "I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and...

The stunning debut novel by the Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2025. An emotionally charged exploration of what happens when one moment changes everything. A child disappears in broad daylight—and no one sees a thing. Three-year-old Oliver, known as Apple Man, vanishes from a remote...

A powerful and compelling new novel about friendship, false prophets and the lure of belonging— from the bestselling author of One of Those Mothers. When five very different women join a gym run by the magnetic Lars and his elusive wife Priya, they are convinced they've found more than a...

Can you ever truly run away from your past? Mickey Bloom: five foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. With a mostly absent and hostile father, Mickey feels she's no good at anything. Until she discovers running. Mickey's new-found talent makes her realise she's everything she thought she...

Becky thought she’d left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland’s burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Becky and star-dusted Zoe Golden, and what happened when one terrifying night...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is viewed in our society. Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are...

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research—specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.

‘Extraordinary . . . I absolutely loved this family mystery’ – Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Here One Moment 'Riveting . . . [It] held me captive' – Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Devotion Discover this breathtaking debut novel of family secrets and searing atmosphere set...