In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered...

A young man is trying to find a mystical sword to turn back time. His family and village were slaughtered leaving him to survive on the land. If he can find this blade of time he can go back and save everyone from the horrible fate they where give...

A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip , now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada. The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shape...

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, stolen from her when he was just days old. She relies on strangers to guide her way north. They speak of a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat, slowly telling a sp...

In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love. Ranging from rural New Z...

Winner of the Tasmania Prize and the Deutz Medal for fiction this is a singular melding of history and imagination. In August 1905 a party of young men boarded a ship for England. Among them were four farmers, two bootmakers and a boatbuilder. By ...

Internationally acclaimed award-winning author Lloyd Jones looks back at how rugby shaped his childhood, his worldview and his adult sensibilities. From childhood games in the suburbs of Wellington, to a reverence for the mythical members of the A...

In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, when they meet in New Zealand during World War I. Years later, in her restaurant in Wellington, Rosa, Schmidt's grand...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Mister Pip is quite simply one of the greatest novels of our time. Matilda lives on an island in the Pacific, embroiled in civil war. When her teacher begins reading Great Expectations to her class, Pip b...

When Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist forced to give up his identity and become Hoxha's  public double. Part travel narrative, part imaginative fiction, Biografi...