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Heaven
Robert Marling is on a losing streak. He's a struggling architect with a gambling problem, and a wife who is suing him for divorce. When he meets Heaven, a streetwalker who has visions of the future, his luck begins to change – for better, and for worse. A tale of chance and weirdness on Auckland's K Road, Heaven was first published by David Ling in 1995 and later made into a feature film by Miramax in 1998. The original novel is now available as a digital edition.
Huxley
If Huxley had a business card it wouldn't say much. He lives in Auckland. He collects debts. He is punctual. He knows a few people. He is in reasonable health. He was raised not to talk much about himself. So he doesn't. The fixer short story Huxley was first published in The Mammoth Book of International Crime edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Constable/Robinson UK, Running Press USA, 2009).
Peru
'The Rough Guide to Peru' is a comprehensive handbook for the independent traveller that provides entertaining coverage of all the sights, detailed listings of the best places to stay and eat, and practical advice for outdoor pursuits.
Palm Beach Life
Since 1906, Palm Beach Life has been the premier showcase of island living at its finest — fashion, interiors, landscapes, personality profiles, society news and much more.
Aurélie
An art thief hired to steal Hokusai's Great Wave reaches a breaking point when she lifts the original woodblock print from a radioactive safe abandoned in the wake of the 2011 Japan tsunami. Rewarded, she retires to enjoy an anonymous life. But when her identity is exposed, she must turn the tide on her pursuers. A hardboiled noir set in Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, and the desert sands of California, Aurélie is a story of high-tech crime and existential angst.
The Departure Lounge
What happens when people land on unfamiliar moral and cultural turf? The five stories in Paul Eggers' The Departure Lounge examine that question, focusing on characters in either voluntary or involuntary exile--men and women forced to confront their deepest emotions and beliefs, removed from familiar, comforting surroundings. In one story an academic flees his family, arriving in Africa only to find that his African host is dealing with a similar crisis. In another, an American chess hustler in Africa is forced to come to terms with his own sense of right and wrong. In yet another, an old Vietnamese man now living in California finds that his relationship with his now-dead daughter was not what he had assumed. In the story "Hey," a young chess star confronts the death of his brother in the Vietnam War. And in the final story, an aging American couple--former UN relief workers--return to their refugee-camp worksite in Malaysia, discovering what they had forgotten about themselves. In lyrical, tough-minded prose, Eggers' stories illuminate in unexpected ways the profundity of cross-cultural experiences, as well as deliver fresh insights into the complexity of identity.
Ladies of the Lounges
"Ladies of the Lounges is set in the early 1970s, a time when there indeed was a department store named Holmes in New Orleans which observed the amenities of serving coffee to its early customers. It is the story of one day in the lives of six elderly women whose paths cross simply because all of them happen to be the aficionados of this particular store. Two of them are immigrants, the rest native Southerners, New Orleanians. In the course of that one day their lives change dramatically in ways none of them could have foreseen."
The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself
Twelve short stories about sex, science fiction and obsession, first published in 1995: 'Running Hot & Cold', 'Calling Doctor Dollywell', 'The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself', 'Fire in the Hole', 'Archie and Veronica', 'No Sun No Rain', 'Somewhere in the 21st Century', 'Oilskin', 'John', 'Me & Misspelt', 'From Soup to Nuts', 'Another White Gown'. The ebook edition features new cover art by Ian Dalziel.
