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  • Published: 2 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761355868
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.00

Minute Cryptic

Over 160 Wordplay Puzzles to Decipher, Unlock and Untangle

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Minute Cryptic Angas Tiernan, Liam Runnalls

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When We Were Monsters

The day before we kill Meredith Graffam is calm and blue.

Dire Bound

Blood drips into my right eye. Once. Twice. It’s blinding and searing at the same time.

One Night in Paris

It happened to people, this longing, emerging from an unknown void, grabbing the soul with a firm hand, the urge to simply let go and sink to the depths of the ocean.

Māori Millionaire

Your mindset is foundational in building wealth. With an aligned mindset, we can then focus on the strategy.

The Good Losers

One of the first things I saw on induction day at Levin-Bell Rowing Club was a bare bum.

1985

“Just before midnight yesterday Greenpeace boat the Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Auckland harbour.”

Dreamslinger: Slinger Series Book 1

Today was going to be revolutionary, Aria Loveridge thought as she got out of bed and reached for the metal-fibre gloves from her bedside table.

Fire

When I was twelve years old, I was buried alive within the grounds of a construction site.

Unreel

The idiot box: my first hazy television-related memory, bathed in the blue-tinged glow of a cathode-ray tube, hails from when I was about three and therefore a complete idiot myself.

New Stories

No matter what your talent, or how hard you work, there’s an element of chance in everything that happens.

The End Crowns All

I never asked for visions, I was one. In my future, I see myself regal and glorious, luminescent with the glow of my god.

At The Grand Glacier Hotel

I understood that furtive expression. After twenty-five years of marriage I could tell when Curtis had misplaced something, and from the way he kept feeling his pockets and glancing around, I knew that whatever was lost was important.