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"More than five years on from that fateful morning when I first spoke to Charles Cranston, the man who fell down a ravine and changed my life, the report on the 'Ondwa' site is still locked away in a filing cabinet somewhere. Despite our going to great pains to make it as scientific and objective as...

"I was born right on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, and I often had cause to wonder if the bleak darkness of that day had seeped into my soul."Jessica Ann MacKenzie was the second of three girls born into a close, loving and staunchly Christian family. Her parents had the normal h...

"Before anyone could move, Henry, staring at the approaching pirate ship, saw something that made his blood run cold. From a shadowy black form on the fore-deck of the pirate ship came a flash of fire and then, as if in slow motion, a cannon-ball soared towards them.The main-mast, broken at the base...

The setting of this collection of short stories is the landscape and cultural background of the small South Pacific nation of New Zealand (Aotearoa) - where it is common for lives to overlap. A family and community come together around the ordeal of a child’s abduction. A girl forges an unlikel...