In the town of El Idilio, buried deep in the jungle on the bank of a small Amazon tributary, lives Antonio Bolivar, a recluse. This simple man has discovered a quiet passion for romantic tales, which he reads with great appetite.

Winner of the Nordic Prize 2002, The Half Brother has already sold more than 150,000 copies in Norway alone and is set to become an international sensation within the year. This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family in the 1960s, set apart by extraordinary family members, and of two half-brothers leading very different and separate lives, until they are brought together again at their mother's deathbed...

.The literary / arts journal that was highly commended in the Best Reviews Page category of the Montana Awards, and which Kim Hill recently called 'an essential item in everybody's library', goes from strength to strength with this issue- .With 'private lives/true confessions' as its guiding theme, Landfall 202 gets under the skin of 'the personal'. .Laura Kipnis offers a spirited critique of that thing called love in her essay 'Domestic Gulags'. .Douglas Wright delivers a stunning chapter of autobiography, and Shonagh Koea tell... read more

This new edition of Landfall continues the exciting new look of Ladfall 200 including the wider format, fine typography and portfolios of artworks printed on quality paper. The content in this issue revolve around the idea of 'shelter'. It includes writing from Margaret Atwood, Cilla McQueen, Peter Wells, Mike Davis and many others. It also features photographs by Ellen Brooks and Laurence Aberhart, and paintings by Saskia Leek.

The Second Favorite Son unfolds two hundred years of the Packard family saga. It is a story of the ties that bind and the kind of love only a truly eccentric family can understand.When Straughan Packard III dies suddenly, control of the family empire should have been passed to his firstborn son, the princely

These stories by Gary Langford have been published many times, both in New Zealand and overseas. Apart from his books of fiction, poetry, plays and a writing textbook, he has had more than 200 productions of his plays, scripts and musicals on stage, radio and television. He has won awards for his stories and this entire collection has also been broadcast on the radio in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. He has also edited numerous anthologies of poetry and stories, particularly in his role as co-ordinator of Creative Writing at th... read more

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Twenty-nine year old Oscar Devlin has grown comfortable, bored and resentful of his position in his father's business in Auckland. So when he learns that Rex, international racing car champion driver and his favourite uncle, has died in a car accident leaving him a quarter of a million dollars including a gas station in the small town of Port Lawrence, Oscar drops everything to head south. Seeing himself clearly for the first time he considers just who he really is. Soon a reinvented, far more passionate Oscar emerges. Alon... read more

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New York, 1976. Sixty-six-year-old Salvo Ursari stands 400 metres above the earth, suspended on a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He has promised his wife Anna this will be his final walk on the wire. So begins Steven Galloway's epic tale of one man's life and abiding passion. The nine-year-old Salvo, a Romany gypsy, escapes to Budapest from his village in Transylvania after a family tragedy. From there he moves to Berlin and then, in the 1930s, flees to America, where he enjoys tremendous success ... read more

Myrtle Dunnage returns to Dungatar, a small country town where the townspeoples' eccentricities are many and varied. At first, ostracisedTilly is gradually accepted in order to make use of her extraordinary dressmaking skills. But ghosts of the past have to be faced, and Tilly wreaks a havoc that provides a most satisfying

In a continuation of the family saga begun in the highly acclaimed Tamar,White Feathers follows the lives of Tamar and Andrew Murdoch, in the years leading up to and immediately after World War One.Tamar’s children become the focus of the continuing story, in particular her illegitimate eldest son, Joseph, the Boer War veteran who sits awkwardly between two cultures in a country that is just beginning to forge its own identity. Since the ... read more

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The Ya Ya Sisterhood meets Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil in an irresistible Southern tale of friendship, dark secrets and finding out who really counts. For as long as anyone can remember the three Miss Margarets

In 1661 a brother and sister stagger off a ship to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas Turner is a barber surgeon; Sally Turner an apothecary. Both gifted healers, they are bound to each other by blood and necessity but as their new lives unfold, betrayal and murder make them deadly enemies. Their descendents - dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters - will shape the future of medicine and a new city. Interweaving the fate of two pioneering families with a young country's strugg... read more

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Here are some of Sciascia's greatest stories, brief and haunting: the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia'; the reader comes to realise that he is eavesdropping on the musings of a mafia boss and his underling. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton New Jersey. After a long time at sea, their landfall is far from what they expected. And Mussolini himself ta... read more

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Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, this title is packed with incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively.