Charlotte Randall: 5 books

'I always been a coin boy . . .' � Hokitika, 1865, at the height of the Gold Rush. In a town with a hundred pubs, young Halfie - aka Harvey, Thumbsucker, Bedwetter, Cocoa and Pipsqueak - gets by as best he can. � Most of the time he hangs around the Bathsheba pub, washing dishes, running errands...

In a village caf� in Crete, 1981, a young backpacker is befriended by a troubled New Zealander, Henry Davis. He reveals that his daughter Sally vanished from the island two years earlier and he has come to Crete to explore the baffling circumstances of her disappearance. For Davis there are painful...

Time runs backwards in this exhilarating novel from the author of the award-winning The Curative. The Montague family is traced back in time from Petone, Wellington, in the present day, to the amazing case of Anne Green, who in 1650 is executed in Oxford, England, but then miraculously recovers on the dissection table.

This brilliant, compelling and unusual novel - part mystery, part philosophy and part social history - is set in the early years of the 19th century. The narrator is an inmate in Bedlam, the London mental asylum, where he is chained to a wall in unspeakably disgusting conditions. Yet he is witty,...

NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is the ebook companion to a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope.   Pieces include:    A...