Auckland, New Zealand, 1987: a tourist disappears in the night. The visitor has apparently come to life from a photograph: a year later she reappears, only to die again. The mystery draws a reporter into an urban underworld where art is the only truth.Blue Hotel was named in the NZ Listener's Best Books of 2022 and Best Novel finalist in the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards."Dark and funny" – Mark Broatch, NZ Listener"Blue Hotel is dark...

A new edition of the original 1995 collection The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself with new cover art by Christchurch artist Ian Dalziel. The collection features 12 short stories: 'Running Hot & Cold', 'Calling Doctor Dollywell', 'The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself', 'Fire in the Hole', 'Archie and Veronica', 'No Sun No Rain', 'Somewhere in the 21st Century', 'Oilskin', 'John', 'Me & Misspelt', 'From Soup to Nuts', 'Another White Gown'.

This is not a relationship book that tells you how to communicate better, love harder, or find the "right" partner.It's a book about why you keep fucking it up.Why intimacy feels unsafe.Why blame feels easier than responsibility.Why you shut down, explode, cheat, escape, control, or leave instead of staying present when things get uncomfortable.Written by a clinical psychotherapist who's lived it, not just studied it, this book cuts through self-help...

This is not a relationship book that tells you how to communicate better, love harder, or find the “right” partner.It’s a book about why you keep fucking it up.Why intimacy feels unsafe.Why blame feels easier than responsibility.Why you shut down, explode, cheat, escape, control, or leave instead of staying present when things get uncomfortable.Written by a clinical psychotherapist who’s lived it, not just studied it, this book cuts through self-help...

**"I thought I was an exception...**I was not. Statistically, you are not an exception either. But there's hope!"Every day millions of people struggle after being blindsided by losing a loved one unexpectedly; especially a loved one that died by their own hand. In this eye-opening book, you'll read how Chad Taylor and his two little children were suddenly thrust into this growing number of afflicted people. But their story doesn't end there, and yours ...

Futures broker Ellerslie Penrose stumbles on to the strange story of a Victorian escape artist named Palmer who continues to cheat death."Imagine Raymond Chandler filing from New Zealand with a little help from Anne Rice and Jean-Paul Sartre, and you're still not close to imagining the oddity of this weird, wonderful novel. Taylor's structural instincts are so unerring and his tersely elegant language so seductive that the story never once falters - even as it morphs from a murder ...

"You gamble, you believe in luck. Like if you're swimming, you believe in water. Right?"Robert Marling is on a losing streak. He's a struggling architect with a gambling problem, and a wife who is suing him for divorce. When he meets Heaven, a transexual streetwalker who glimpses the future in her dreams, his luck begins to change -- for better, and for worse.A tale of chance and weirdness on Auckland's K Road, HEAVEN was made into a feature film by Miramax in 1998 starring...

A missing couple recalled in snatches of conversation. An abstract painter who goes on the road in search of new directions. A crypto trader discovers his last friend has become difficult to see. A mother who won't let go of her children. A psychic photographer who captures images of the dead. A crime scene investigator watches people come and go. Six stories by Chad Taylor, compiled for the first time, share themes of transience, dreamlike intimacy and loss.New Zealand writer Chad...

"I thought I was an exception...I was not. Statistically, you are not an exception either. But there's hope!"Every day millions of people struggle after being blindsided by losing a loved one unexpectedly; especially a loved one that died by their own hand. In this eye-opening book, you'll read how Chad Taylor and his two little children were suddenly thrust into this growing number of afflicted people. But their story doesn't end there, and yours does...

A travelling businessman struggles with the local language. First published in Sunday Magazine (2005).

Ten years after the events of Heaven, Robert Marling has blown it all. Ducking his creditors, he retreats to the apartment of his late father. Alone with the dead man's jazz collection, he achieves nothingness. But the silence of the maze-like building is interrupted by music from a different world.The Church of John Coltrane is the sequel to Heaven which was made into a feature film in 1998. New English language edition published 2023.

Two brothers and their families return to their mother's beach house the summer after she died. They still think about their mother. Their mother still thinks about them.