Books

Joe Vukovic of 28 (Maori) Battalion is a deeply scarred casualty of WW2, but all you can see of it from the outside is a badly-broken nose. Inside, though, the experience of watching his pregnant fiancée being shot by SS partisan-hunters has left him in an agony of guilt and hatred that shapes the rest of his…

Titokowaru– is warrior, priest and a man of two worlds, charged with defending his people’s ancestral lands from incursion by the very settlers whose faith, manners and customs he has adopted in the spirit of co-existence. Haunted by self-doubt and tormented by the weight of expectation, one of the most striking New Zealanders in our…

July 1864:  In the Civil War’s last, desperate invasion of Union territory, a regiment of Confederate cavalry carries out its own version of the Charge of the Light Brigade, annihilating two Union artillery batteries to save its army at the battle of Fort Stevens, outside Washington DC. But as soon as his wounds have healed,…

This is the first of The Scraeling’s chronicles; the story of a crippled child taken as a trophy, and of his long journey to adulthood and a terrible revenge for the slaughtered nuns who raised him. Through his learning, his cunning and his intelligence, the cripple earns the title of ‘the most dangerous little bugger alive’…

The Scraeling is back . . . Sickened by politics, heartbroken by affairs of state and disgusted by the perfidy of kings, the man who was once secretary and chief of staff to Harald Hardraada, the fearsome Landwaster, turns his back on Norway to sail to post-Conquest England in search of the only family he has left.…

And he finds it . . . The Scraeling and his group of ‘the last, weary, raggy-arsed end of Hardraada’s day’ take military service in a Constantinople where the ruling house is tottering on the edge of collapse under an emperor who’d rather be a scholar. The Scraeling seeks only a quiet life while he…