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The people in these stories do not speak very much, these people plant gardens, chop wood, make jam - everyday tasks that go on through grief and pleasure, childhood and old-age, making a framework for endurance. They are 'Ordinary people'. This title presents the stories that echo the precisely observed landscape of the author's poems.

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Patricia Donovan has created a haunting and compelling narrative that explores the fragility of our social fabric and, ultimately, our humanity.

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Sometimes you have to take the law into your own hands...

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Lucy, the Devil, wants to retire. Brian, the Business Advisor, hates his job. When Brian finds himself in Lucys crosshairs, she makes him an offer he cant refuse: work his business magic on Hell, and if he succeeds, become her successor as the next Devil. To claim this throne, Brian faces off against Death, God, and Lucy's own twin children.

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The Eldest Girl is a family drama spanning three generations. It moves between the 1960swith Tom, fresh off the boat from England who falls in love with the seemingly unattainableNgahere, and 2010 where Cassius, their son, is grieving the death of his wife, Mere, andbarely able to parent their children.

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Zetties fictional story. She stops talking, at age seven, and starts to listen to the worlds she finds in language and books, and to the people and places she encounters as she moves across continents.

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When European settlers sailed to the bottom of the world, to Down Under, they took with them: tools, seed, livestock and their hope. They did not take monsters. Those crept aboard ... all by themselves.

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The eagerly awaited new collection from award-winning author Frankie McMillan. The work features stories that globe trot all over the planet: from Russia to America to New Zealand. They are laugh-out-loud, surreal, bizarre and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity.

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Stand by Me meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in this powerful debut

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Another ghost story by the award-winning author of The Ghosts on the Hill. A tale of resilience and recovery, set in the Christchurch Red Zone.

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Sharon is a young widow struggling to cope with a drug addict son. And then, into her life comes a gift - her granddaughter, Mia, precious and needing Sharon's help. his is the story of how Sharon overcomes adversity and past setbacks to turn her life around. Along the way, she discovers, friendships, support, competence and self-respect.

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These two cinematic novellas feature two strong, capable, modern day heroines determined to make their own way in the world.

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Its 1960s provincial New Zealand, cracks are showing in the conventional middle-class lives. Callum's father is a bully, and the people his parents mix with are keeping secrets. Amongst this, Callum is coming to understand his identity and needs to find a way to resolve internal conflicts to help his family and tell the truth about the past.

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Quirky, clever, and poignant. 'The Library of Unfinished Business' is about the magic of storytelling, the importance of living bravely, and the power of love to triumph, even over death.

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In a small village, there are whispers that William is not who he says he is. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. They have all been thrown into a liminal space and can no longer stay as they are.

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A young woman confronts her family's past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting

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Past. Present. Future.These eighteen stories mark Barbara Elses return to fiction for adults. They are notable for their range in genre and tone, from realism to science fiction and fantasy, from subversive humour and sharp satire to thoughtful and humane contemplation of the human condition.

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Twenty funny, tender, compassionate, sharply observed stories whose subjects range from a woman cooking up a storm to fend off a lover; a woman who is arrested for drunk driving after attending a wedding anniversary; a meditation on breasts; a cat called Min, and three sisters who commemorate their mother each year with a piano recital.

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In Emma Neales first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships.