Academy of New Zealand Literature

Fiction

The Thrill of Falling (Short stories: Vintage, 2012)

The Parihaka Woman (Vintage, 2011)

The Trowenna Sea (Raupo, 2009)

His Best Stories (Short stories: Reed, 2009)

Ask the Posts of the House (Raupo, 2008)

The Rope of Man (Reed, 2005)

Bands of Angels (Robson Books, 2005)

Whanau II (Reed, 2004)

Sky Dancer (Penguin, 2003)

The Uncle’s Story (Penguin, 2000)

The Dream Swimmer (Penguin, 1997)

Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Secker & Warburg, 1995)

Te Kaieke Tohorua (Reed, 1995)

Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies (Penguin, 1994)

Whanau (Heinemann, 1974)

Tangi (Heinemann, 1973)

Pounamu, Pounamu (Short stories: Heinemann, 1972)

Dear Miss Mansfield (Short stories: Viking, 1989)

The Whale Rider (Heinemann, 1987)

The Matriarch (Heinemann, 1986)

The New Net Goes Fishing (Short stories: Heinemann, 1977)

Creative Nonfiction

Navigating the Stars: Māori Creation Myths (RHNZ, Vintage, 2020)

Native Son: the writer’s memoir (Penguin Random House, 2019)

Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood (Penguin Random House, 2014)

Anthologies

Essential New Zealand Short Stories (ed. Lauris Edmond, Random House, 2009)

Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories (ed. Marion McLeod: Victoria UP, 2008)

The Long White Cloud: Stories from New Zealand (illus. Chris King: Oxford UP, 2008)

A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex (Auckland UP, 2008)

The Best New Zealand Fiction: Volume 4 (Vintage, 2007)

The New Zealand Book of the Beach (David Ling, 2007)

Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English (Auckland UP, 2003)

The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (ed. Michael Morrissey: Flamingo, Auckland, 2000)

Out of Town: Writing from the New Zealand Countryside (Shoal Bay Press, 1999)

Short Stories from Australia and New Zealand (Cornelsen, 1995)

100 Lovers of Taamaki Makaurau (Storytellers’ Club of Auckland University Students Association, 1994)

Editor

Ngā Kupu Wero (Penguin, 2023)

Black Marks on the White Page (with Tina Makereti: Penguin Random House, July 2017)

Someone’s Mana (Hatje Cantz, 2016)

Get On  The Waka (Raupo, 2007)

Auckland: The City in Literature (Exisle Publishing, 2003)

Where’s Waari? A History of the Maori Through the Short Story (Raupo, 2000)

Vision Aotearoa – Kaupapa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 1994)

Te Ao Marama: An Anthology of Stories (Reed, 1992)

Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing (Heinemann, 1982)