Series: Landfall Tauraka Short Story series

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...

‘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...