Anna Mackenzie

Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Young Adult Fiction category, Ebony Hill presents a convincing post-apocalyptic drama. It is a sequel to the award-winning novel The Sea-wreck Stranger. "No matter how much you might want to leave a place, if it's where you were raised it holds a piece of you it doesn't easily give up." Ness...

They offered up the innocence of a generation... Evie is 18, straight out of school, and excited by the prospect of a tour of Europe. Instead, she finds herself immersed in war; first in the Home Counties – where the young New Zealander is confronted not only by society's restrictions and her family's expectations, but by the burgeoning women's rights...

Riveting post-apocalyptic YA fantasy, this is a thriller you can't put down. The heroine, Ness, is imaginative and independent and questions and seeks meaning in a world that her elders would drain of all variety and joy. Ness lives on Dunnett Island, where people are in constant fear of all things that come from the sea, having lost many of...