He has a thirst for death and power. Mako takes what he wants and crushes opposition.She has a gift. A young healer who converses with the Ancestors. But even with the voices in her head, Marama cannot quiet the panic in her heart as the impending threat to her home looms.The Ancestors offer deliverance, prophesying a land of abundance and sending Starman the navigator. But the decision is not easy. Marama's people must choose whether to trust the dead and leave Green Islan...

What if you could go to a writing event and leave knowing your work could be published? Or go home with pieces to craft later? These are not rhetorical questions. This collection of work is unique. The theme was a shared and unifying experience, and the dream was for the people who attended to publish after the hui. The dream became a reality. You are about to read it. The Anthology opens and closes with excerpts from two of Witi Ihimaera's upcoming books, Plume of Pareārau a sci-fi offeri...

Humankind brought the Earth to the brink of destruction.It's 2144, and life has changed for the better. Or has it?Based on 20th-century longitudinal research, the ruling Council introduced the Goodness Algorithm to remove the five per cent of humans who may cause societal problems by puberty.Julia is the Chief Genetic Scientist of Good Hope. She notices a change in the behaviour and intelligence of children. They are evolving rapidly.The Quality Control Depa...

Nothing says summer holidays like the splash of red from the Pohutukawa flower – bring it on!That is the inspiration for the poem collection title and a few scribbles to entertain you at the beach or in the hammock this year. During the cooler months you can cosy up by the fire and enjoy some ramblings from R. de wolf. In the 2022 soup is a pinch of memoir, a teaspoon of nostalgia, a cup of giggles, a stir of thought and a dusting of opinion.No poet laureate offerings to go...

It's been seven years since Marama's people fled their Pacific island home and built a new life in Kāingatipu, Aotearoa (NZ). Starman and Kai, her man and son, will return to fulfil a prophecy. Marama is pregnant. She can't risk the baby or abandon her daughter and duties to travel with them.While foraging, the women encounter unknown warriors seeking a foreign woman to give their chief a son. Marama's village is undefended. She lures the invaders away to save her people and allows...

Mumbles, memories and mutters conjured a raft of rambles and reflections. What shall I read this summer you may ask? It is my time to chill and be lazy. A gift of mostly poetry, a peppering of remembering with Reggie Reflections, wrapped up in a bow. From the manipulation of cats, stuffing tradition, tributes, to the intricacy of names, a chocolate box of alphabeta - yes, we did borrow both those words from the Greeks - treats. Stuff yourself silly all at once for a laugh, sniff or receive...

When your father is the God of the sea, and your brother a whale, life is complicated for young navigator Kai.Nobody returns from Walu, the Black Island. Blood priest Kapanval practices dark magic and is the terror of the Pacific. He is an enemy of Kai's family.Tangaroa tasks Kai and his brother with protecting his home. A beautiful woman haunts Kai's dreams, begging him to save her. Enemies assail them, but all currents flow toward Walu. Kai must go where others do not. Ka...

An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into the world of its fascinating inhabitants—through the eyes of the beautiful Ea, a spinner dolphin.Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world—its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies—that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race.Ea has always felt like an outsider. A...

Dive into a beautifully illustrated guide to mermaid myths, legends, and lore from around the world.Discover the myths, legends, and lore behind everyone’s favorite sea creature—mermaids.The allure and mystery of mermaids has taken hold of our psyche for ages. From the Irish merrows who come on land to search for human husbands to the infamous Fiji Mermaid made popular by P.T. Barnum, these sea maidens (and sometimes men) appear throughout folklore and myth...

Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last 25 years by more than 80 writers from Aotearoa, Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti and Rotuma – some living in these islands and some dispersed around the globe. Together with works by established and celebrated poets, the editors...

Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts, butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this, gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ' Always italicise foreign words' , a friend of the author was advised. In her first book of poetry, Maori scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville does just that. In wit and anger, sadness and aroha, she reflects on ' how to write while colonised' – how to write in English as a Maori writer; how to trace...

“[Anne] McCaffrey here adds yet another dimension to her colorful and vivid saga by focusing on the attractive dolphins and their highly believable society.”—Publishers WeeklyWhen the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern’s oceans while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck. The deadly silver spores called Thread fell ...