The raw and powerful sequel to Once Were Warriors.It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. Jake's wife, Beth, has left him, his son Nig was killed in a gangland fight - his only consolations are drink and his memories. His daughter Polly is determined to escape the violence tha...
This started out a book review, but it's also a bit of a personal essay, and it's not all pretty. And this is really long, consider yourselves warned :)I thought about doing the 30 day book challenge, but there's always this one question in those kinds of things that make me pause. This time it w...
The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake, and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him. Polly, as beautiful as her sister Grace, who committed suicide; is that a Heke running with the wealthy polo-playing set and g...
Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. He sees himself as part of both sides of the moon; '...kind of blackman, sort of nigger, in my own country, and kind of white, sort of The Man, the other half of me. I am torn yet I am more whole since I am both...'He is part of a fractured...
One night out stealing two small-time hoods chance upon the home of a wealthy Wellington lawyer... The ensuing events unfold with stark brutality amidst a seldom-seen New Zealand cityscape of littered streets reflected in rain puddles and crowded speeding highways and noisy smoke-filled bars, a w...
Lena described him as reverting, which seemed to irritate him — connotations perhaps of a weaker man. The bench seat they shared was bedded right by a large pool of superheated water that had cut its own deep channel a good eighty yards to the river, forming a snake-like, yard-wide stream of boil...
Lu at this situation. Why am I doing it? Blame Rocky. His stupid idea. All right for him, he’s done his time and he’s a man, he’s tough, doesn’t know the nightmares I have of being locked up that send me crazy. In a cell with a gleeful Uncle Rick who says he has me for life now. Lately a certain ...