The Beach

Alex Garland

The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.   The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his w...

Birdgirl - A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

Mya-Rose Craig

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing. 'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life.' Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity acti...

At The Point of Seeing

Megan Kitching

At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’...