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We were the dead without an afterlife, ruining the lives of the living. We drifted through neighbourhoods in small packs, clinging to each other, all but alone. Our parents had given up. Packed their photos and furniture and moved to the forest to live simpler lives. But we stayed because there was nowhere else to go. We sold everything for rent — time, dignity, self-respect. Beneath the shiny new paint jobs and streets paved with debt lay our home.
Stuck
in a dead-end office job, Zlata hopes for a record deal so she can escape
Auckland city. Then at party she meets Hamish, a graffiti artist and
part-time drug dealer. Each has their own ideas about the other’s life, and
surrounded by a makeshift family of friends and ex-lovers, their dreams of
music, art and travel take shape.
But as quickly as things come together,
they can be torn apart — unravelling relationships and lives.
Available online here
Milk
Island
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“No more perfect conceit for a dystopian near-future novel has existed in New Zealand”, says Murdoch Stephens, editor at Lawrence & Gibson. “Milk Island is a work of conceptual genius combining dropping our she’ll-be-right haplessness onto a centre-right empire bigger than even Piggy Muldoon could have imagined.” With the 2023 NZ election approaching on Milk Island, the novel’s four main characters are interwoven into the same sprawling web of prisons, politics, tourism and media. On the former South Island, patriotism and prosperity trumps all else and life matters very little unless you're Milky Moo, the nation's favourite genetically-enhanced cow. Available online here |
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