Feral and Other Stories is an electrifying debut from Tamaki 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).
