"On the great plains of the Manawatu a Danish Huguenot family has found refuge, eking out an immigrant livelihood. But for Frédérique d'Albret, the distant nightmare of Europe in the 1860s is only too real. Day by day she must live with the rumours of the war on these bright tussocklands, hauinted by a love that was pledged in Danish snow ..."--Back cover.

The main character, Mavis, decides to become a writer after the death of her second husband. The reader is "privy to the attendant avoidances, interruptions, and irrelevancies that are part of her attempt to complete a novel."--Jacket.

A novel on a New Zealand town whose women are made pregnant by aliens. One after another they report being taken into a spaceship and impregnated with heat waves. Rape or immaculate conception? Authorities investigate, newsmen converge and the town of Opunake basks in fame. A first novel.

This is the final battle. Tristan, Jame and Shimoda fight to save not only Earth, but also the Moon and Mars.

"When you swear off men for the foreseeable future, that means no dating. Hookups don't count, right? Harper Ryland has been on a self-imposed man ban for the last twelve months, after a particularly horrible breakup. Instead, she's focusing on the one thing she can control: her career as an up-and-coming food stylist. Harper's latest gig is her best friend's wedding, and she receives glowing praise throughout the night. When the best man, Manny Gomes,...