Alan Duff

Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugby League, Rugby Union and Boxing. Sonny Bill has built an incredible career and sporting reputation across the globe. His athleticism has taken him from inner-city Auckland, where he grew up, to the...

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest....

It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. Jake's wife, Beth, has left him, his son Nig was killed in a gangland fight - his only consolations are drink and his memories....

The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him.

Charlie Wilson, the 'state house boy' from Two Lakes, is sent to Riverton Boys' Home as a state ward until such time as he is seen fit to return to society. There's also the name 'George' scrawled on the walls, and by it the word 'kehua' or ghost.

When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in sole charge of his strange young son, Danny.

Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. His controversial comments shook the country....

Riley's daughter, Anna, seems to have everything: looks, money, confidence. Lu has nothing except her friends and the sense of inferiority and rage she feels the moment she sets eyes on Anna Chadwick. Feelings that will run out of control...

Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. He sees himself as part of both sides of the moon – kind of black man and kind of white.

It is the 1950s. The Soviets and the Secret Police have a choking grip on Hungary and the lives of its citizens. Attila Szabo is one of them, just a teenager, but he's been forced to grow up quickly, with his father in prison.

Boys’ homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again – and again. That’s been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies.