Sue Orr: 4 books

**A prize-winning collection of vivid, accessible stories.**These fresh, contemporary stories can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier works: from Maori myth and fairy tale to masterpieces by writers...

Varied and accomplished, these stories of sustenance are entertaining, stimulating and original. An ageing taxi driver reflects on mortality and the choices he has made in life as he indulges in a clandestine Italian feast. The friend of a dying woman delivers a sardonic commentary on the frenetic...

**A modern short story from a prize-winning collection, riffing on the traditional Maori creation myth.**Taawhirimatea is the Maori god of weather. According to the Maori world creation story, he chose to stay with his sky father rather than join his siblings and his earth mother when the sky and...

**An enthralling novel of individual bravery versus silent, collective complicity, set in a vividly drawn farming community in 1970s New Zealand.***The Baxters do not know their place.*On the first of June every year, sharemilkers load their trucks with their families, pets and possessions and crawl...