'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermidA DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH.A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION.A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY.THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED.WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF PARADISE.Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s C...

There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history.From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover's wife, with a few bushrangers for good measure, Europeans play all the leading roles. A rare exception is the redoubtable tracker. With skills passed down over millennia, trackers could trace the movements of people across vast swathes of country. Celebrated as saviours of lost children and disoriented adults, and finders of missing livestock, they...

THE GRIPPING NEW DUAL-VOICE THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BETTER THE BLOOD AND RETURN TO BLOOD**.**In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki – a sacred constellation in Maori culture, heralding a time of new beginnings. For former Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman, life is good: her work in her hometown of Tata Bay is going well, the community is...

From the award-winning co-writer of The Gone comes a gripping new crime thriller where the official story says accident – but the dead say otherwise.Chloe is about to have the worst day of her life.A rookie cop in Sydney, she responds to a call-out on a housing estate: reports of a gunman, a building in lockdown, backup still minutes away. Going in alone, Chloe is pulled upwards – floor by floor – ...

A new town. A second chance. A calling he never saw coming.When Peter arrives in Port Redding to rebuild his life, he believes he's come to help, running a harbor rescue clinic along a coastline forever changed by the sea. But this is no ordinary place. Dolphins gather with purpose. Orcas watch from beyond the break. And the ocean is not silent. It's waiting.As the tides begin to shift in ways no one can explain, Peter realizes he is standing at the edge of something far grea...

Before crowns or prophecies or ancient agreements, there was a girl who loved the water.Lilibeth has always felt the ocean calling. With her surfboard, a pod of dolphins, and a mysterious blue pearl around her neck, she moves through the waves like she belongs to something bigger than herself.When she dreams of the Emerald Castle beneath the sea, she discovers that joy is not just something to enjoy, it's something to protect. As tensions rise between the dolphin realm and ...

A young girl is caught between her love for the ocean and defending the dolphins to save Queens Selina's kingdom she must go on a quest to retrieve Neptune's Trident to fight off the White Sharks King Akeilos always keeping in mind that one decision can change everything when you go surfing with the dolphins.

They had never expected the threat to come this way.With Noah, Fitz, and Daniel away on work that took them from the coast, the clinic is left in the hands of those who know it best. Penny, Anna, and Wendy face a challenge that does not rise from the ocean, but from human ambition corporate interests determined to claim what was built through care. Holding ground means more than defending a place; it means understanding what it asks of them in return.It is Lilibeth who find...

Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes in...

From the brilliant New York Times bestselling authors of the “refreshingly blunt” (Harper’s Bazaar) F*ck Feelings—this seriously irreverent roadmap reveals the essentials to look for when you're done being suckered by the promise of true love and want help seeking a real, lasting relationship.Many people have opinions on the subject of romantic relationships—why they’re so hard to find, so difficult to maintain, so easily analogized to pl...

In Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre, theatre theorist, Michael Y. Bennett offers a systematic account of theatre--thinking about theatre metaphysically, epistemologically, and ethically. To investigate theatre and its in-between spaces, Bennett introduces some basic ideas about coherence and correspondence and, much more prominently, conversations surrounding subsumption and distinctness in order to better describe theatre as a form of art. Instead of limiting the concep...

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience.Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge, they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and ofte...