The bestselling author of A High Country Life shares more stories of living in the isolated mountains of New Zealand, plus 70 hearty recipes.Philippa's much-loved book A High Country Life sprang from her popular Instagram page, 'What's for Smoko'. Full of great stories of living through the seasons on a high country station, it contained stunning images of the beautiful landscape in which Philippa and her family live and farm.Her second bo...

A high country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes.Life on Otematata Station, a 40,000 hectare high country station in Otago, is busy and varied. Philippa Cameron and her husband, Joe, who is the fifth generation to work the farm, help care for this vast tract of land with 30,000 merino sheep and 500 head of cattle.It's a sparse environment completely at the mercy of the elements, bringing with it many challen...

Elle is 16, she's sweet and funny, she's got a best friend, Libby, who despite her bad temper and foul mouth somehow complements Elle, her parents are loving and supportive, and a boy called Sam appears to want to be more than just friends. A perfect life. There's just one problem. Elle thinks she's supposed to be dead.When she announced this to her parents three years earlier, things moved swiftly: doctor's appointments, weekly therapy sessions, a fridge filled with mood foods and...

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, Hayley knows it is not good news, and she's right: her boyfriend, Jesse, is missing after a night of fun at the local quarry, and she might have been the last one to see him alive...17-year-old Hayley is counting down the days to when she can escape from her parents and the life she feels sure she will inherit from them. Her father's simmering anger at the impotence of his world threatens daily to boil over, while her mother has retr...

How do you get through every day when you think you should be dead?  Elle is 13 when she realizes she is not meant to be here. Telling her parents lands her in therapy and on anti-depressants, and by the age of 16 nothing has changed…  It doesn't stop Elle trying to get through her days in one piece, however. And when she finds out that her favorite band is playing at a nearby festival she faces the challenge of persuading her parents to let her out of their sig...