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Set in New Zealand's beautiful Golden Bay region, Korimako is a story of unanticipated love and new beginnings. Mike Robinson, recently retired and widowed, decides to restart his life and build a log house in Puponga, a remote settlement at the base of Farewell Spit. Mereana Marshall's marriage was...

Spun around the real events of December 1642, when Dutchman Abel Tasman first sighted New Zealand and Maori people first saw Europeans, STRANGER LOVE is a tale seen through the eyes of Tasman's sixteen-year old cousin, Jakob, and the similarly-aged daughter of a Maori chieftain, Te Ao-mihia. Jakob's...

Martin Bettinger is a German novelist and short story writer. He spent several years living in New Zealand, principally in Golden Bay, and this collection of 61 'shortcuts' as he calls these short prose pieces, is a collection of writing that came out of this experience. In Golden Bay he found an...

"BACK TO ANATORI"By Henriette FleischerSYNOPSISPreamble: Bridget Coleman has just turned fifty. Her mother has recently died and she has inherited enough money to enable her to leave her long-time career as an English teacher, put a failed relationship behind her and make some sweeping changes in...

Described as a 'beautiful writer' by The Times, Fiona Kidman brings us a sweeping saga of family ties, heartbreaks, and learning to live with the past. 'A universal and honest book' San Francisco Book Review When war widow Irene Sandle goes to work in New Zealand's tobacco...