Tiggie, the daughter of a high-profile television and print journalist and a top corporate accountant, believes herself talentless and too fat. She dreams of being a famous photographer - photographers make images, their own doesn't matter. When Tiggie scores the role of a lifetime, she realises that this will set her roly-poly image in concrete. Her life has suddenly become very busy and extremely complicated. The powerful and glamorous world of television, a liberal school, an ambitious school production, pre-occupied parents, unlikely friendships and personal struggles culminate in a momentous, bitter-sweet year for Tiggie.

The lives of a modern day young actress and the character she is to portray in a 19th century television drama, are about to collide.

An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.

Tiggie believes she is plain, talentless and fat. To make it worse her mother is a glamorous TV journalist. Despite her wish for a quiet life, Tiggie is about to be discovered.

Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Compares over forty thirteen-year-old girls from all over the world.

Moteliers Clarry and Lucy Claridge own a twelve-unit establishment in a small town in South Taranaki. On a weekend in March 1999 Morrieson's Motel is fully booked as several events and escapades just happen to coincide. Twelve of New Zealand's leading writers of fiction have combined to write a chapter each of the story of what happened at Morrieson's Motel on this eventful weekend. The result is mayhem, mystery, sex, suicide and an entertaining collection of short fiction. Authors are: Barbara Anderson, Catherine Chidgey, Tessa Duder, Maurice Gee, Kevin Ireland, Stephanie Johnson, Graeme Lay, Sue McCauley, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Sarah Quigley, and Elizabeth Smither