Alice Tawhai

This is a complex, bittersweet collection of short stories. Her tales combine characters and occurrences that are at once cripplingly dark and yet also tinged with a quiet beauty and optimism and she deftly covers subjects such as identity, addiction, devotion and abandonment.

Luminous

This third collection of short stories by Alice Tawhai explores the complex mix of beauty and heartache, resilience and joys of people living in seemingly bleak situations. The perceptions of people and their lives are fresh and poignant, seeing the humanity and quiet hope alongside the darkness. The vivid imagery and intensely evocative writing make each story and those in them hauntingly memorable.

Dark Jelly

The stories in the debut collection are set from the Hokianga to Bluff and they are populated by a stunning range of characters - circus workers, Tattoo artists, bikies, mail-order brides, beautiful victims, wild children, immigrants, tangata whenua - who never cease to believe they will find perfect things amidst the human imperfection of their lives; miracles, not misfortune.

Festival of Miracles

This is a fabulous collection of stories from a young and new Maori writer. She finds cosmopolitan material for her stories from the length and breadth of New Zealand. Her words are gem-like observations of lives on the edge, and her characters are rich and varied: bikies, UFO enthusiasts, circus workers, tattoo artists, mail-order brides. To read Alice Tawhai�s works is to see the occasional despair and the often-uplifting poetry of many lives, and many readers will be wiser for the experience.

Albert Wendt

Paula Morris

Tina Makereti

Renée

Patricia Grace

Briar Grace-Smith

Helen Waaka

Terence Rissetto

Mark Sweet

Piripi Evans

K-T Harrison

Toni Pivac

Ann French

Anya Ngawhare

Eru Hart

Jacqui McRae

James George

This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand’s accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.

Nga Hau e Wha

Stories on the Four Winds

Alice Tawhai

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