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Sharing modern ways to make a life at home in New Zealand. From new homes and renovations to styled interior projects, homestyle delivers the best in curated spaces and original ideas to inject personality at your place.

What if being true to yourself means hurting everyone around you? Brynn is a claustrophobic suburban mother on the brink . . .Eric, her husband, is transforming in dark and dangerous ways . . .Their daughter, Jenny, can't fathom the storm barrelling towards her . . .When Brynn awakes from a coma ...

Charlie Matters' life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the Germans. He miraculously emerges unscathed from the Blitz, but there's no telling when the next bomb will fall, and...

Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb.Wi...

A heartwarming and evocative novel of love, friendship and family, where hope overcomes all - even terrible hospital coffee.Andie has no memory of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car. A week before Coral's biggest career highlight, her mum has a fall. And the last thing Mara w...

"'[A] belting debut . . . This is high-concept, high-octane, hi-jinks and I'm here for it' Maz Evans How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks:   If you had the power between life and death, what would you do?   Thea has a secret. She can ...

"Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for these curious twists...

'I read this pure, pained, beautiful book in a single burst, and emerged from it with heart and nerves rinsed clean.' - Helen Garner Disillusioned with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, in Panajachel, she meets two ve...

Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could c...

While the ' nerdy white man' stereotype of Autism dominates in media and popular culture, other Autistic people miss out on seeing themselves, their unique experiences, their hardships and their triumphs. In Someone Like Me, edited by Clem Bastow and Jo Case, twenty-five Autistic gender-diverse a...