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Daniel wants to play for the New Zealand Warriors. Even though he is only twelve he gets into the team.

For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation.

Adam's home at Highgate is crashing down around his ears, and in the fantasy world of Shakesh a mistake is having disastrous consequences.

Ticknor is the first novel by Sheila Heti, the author of the acclaimed story collection The Middle Stories and, with Misha Glouberman, the essay collection The Chairs are Where the People Go.

In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D.

Die. Die with me. Be mine forever. That's what he had said. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St.

A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob.

In Marlborough Sounds in the 1820s sixteen-year-old Lizzie is forced to become the child bride of a notorious whaler. Her life is a living hell, until she meets a young Maori preacher.

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Bonus e-book content includes two out-takes from the novel -- how Antonio Garcia g

Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian , Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who r

From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year.

Aunt Effie and her many nieces and nephews are off in search of treasure in the pirate-infested waters of the Hauraki Gulf and the Waikato River.

A. L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted.

Adam discovers a secret, there was not one baby prince, but two. Zephyr, Prince of the Wind, and Zenith, Prince of the Sun.

From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.