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Feral and Other Stories

By Isabel Haarhaus
Series: Landfall Tauraka Short Story Series
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Feral and Other Stories is an electrifying debut from Tāmaki Makaurau writer Isabel Haarhaus. These vivid and beautifully written stories explore desire, exclusion, loneliness and friendship, often from the viewpoints of girls, women and migrants – outsiders by virtue of circumstance or temperament – who yearn,... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Feral and other stories is an electrifying debut. These vivid and beautifully written stories explore desire, exclusion, loneliness and friendship, often from the viewpoint of girls, women or migrants – outsiders by virtue of circumstance or temperament – who yearn, with passionate and dangerous intensity, to belong.

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Feral and Other Stories is an electrifying debut from Tāmaki Makaurau writer Isabel Haarhaus. These vivid and beautifully written stories explore desire, exclusion, loneliness and friendship, often from the viewpoints of girls, women and migrants – outsiders by virtue of circumstance or temperament – who yearn, with passionate and dangerous intensity, to belong.

Set in Aotearoa New Zealand and abroad in Europe, the UK and the US, Feral and Other Stories is a poignant and moving exploration of risky rites of passage at every stage of life, and of the redemptive balm of friendship and creative purpose. This is extraordinarily insightful writing, roiling with disturbing undercurrents, that stays with the reader long after all pages have been turned.

Feral is the fourth title in the Landfall Tauraka Short Story series, following Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn (2024), Pastoral Care by John Prins (2025) and Offshore Service by Craig Cliff (2026).

Series: Landfall Tauraka Short Story Series

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    Pastoral Care
    In Pastoral Care, Auckland writer John Prins gives us nine clear-eyed, witty and beautifully written stories centred on daily life in twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand. On the shores of Lake Pukaki; in kitchens, bedrooms and Lego-strewn living rooms; at school events; walking the dog, pushing a buggy, or stuck in traffic with a child kicking the back of the driver’s...
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  • Offshore Service
    ‘But I couldn’t go home just yet. I would not be a man in anyone’s eyes. That’s how I wound up working for Anton, servicing the coal ships stranded off the coast.’ —from Offshore Service In Offshore Service and Other Stories, award-winning author Craig Cliff explores the emotional, economic, cultural, and climatic forces that drive our decisions. Farmers search for...
    By Craig Cliff
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781991348272

Publisher: Otago University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 October 2026

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Otago University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 172

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Fiction General Fiction Isabel Haarhaus New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Published Series: Landfall Tauraka Short Story Series

About the Author

Isabel Haarhaus is a writer and teacher in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work has been previously published in Landfall Tauraka and Reading Room. This is her first collection of stories.

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