Xamnesia: Everything I Forgot in My Search for an Unreal Life

Would you drop your life for a 'dream job'?

At twenty-three, Lizzie Harwood is recruited to become a property manager for billionaires. Legally forbidden to talk about her employers, she calls their country 'Xamnesia.' The place has its perks, such as receiving diamond watches and a hug from Michael Jackson, but with her anxiety about succeeding and habit of never telling her family what's really going on, Lizzie will do anything to keep this dream job. And with these bosses, that's one bad rabbit hole to fall into.
 

"When Lizzie Harwood started working for billionaires, she was exposed to exclusive secrets and ludicrous extravagance. In this witty true account, she reveals her outlandish adventures and the lessons she learned in the unreal world of the elite." - BookBub

"A seriously entertaining read. I was swept away in a tale that reads like fiction. Only it isn't!" Amanda van Mulligan

The Best New Zealand Fiction, volume 5

Vintage, 2008. My story, "Throat for Dinner" was selected for this anthology of the best NZ writing in 2007 with Owen Marshall as editor.

Triumph: Collected Stories

"An absorbing collection illuminating the lives of complicated, unforgettable women and girls all over the world. Friendship, heartache, and redemption are tackled with wit and candor in these unique, interconnected short stories. (Bookbub)"

In these collected stories, meet some nice and some not-so-nice female heroines. Will they triumph over the obstacles they face? Or unravel completely? Although these stories may be set in India, New Zealand, Paris, Canada or Rome, it's the trip to the interior landscapes of these plucky heroines that readers of Triumph enjoy.

Polaroid Nights

Auckland city bars, 1996, when the click / whirr of a Polaroid 600 proved you were living your best life. Betty’s is on repeat: waitress till late, drink till dawn, in bed to forget. But partying like there’s no tomorrow is no fix for the problems crowding in. Her ex is back and drinking at her favourite haunts, her flat was burgled and she faces eviction if she can’t pay late rent. And then there’s the serial rapist called the Psychic who’s terrorising women in their homes.

When her ex is murdered and left in her bed, Betty and her flatmate Alabama turn to the bar world to find out who did it. Was it the Psychic – or someone closer?

Polaroid Nights fizzes with the wild energy of the city nightlife of 1990s Auckland. It’s compulsive reading – pitch-perfect with wicked humour and a dark hinterland that chills and fascinates in equal measure. Don’t miss this brilliant debut, the inaugural winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize.