The Night Fishermen

This is a beautifully woven epic of changing, violent times 

seen through the eyes of the hirama – the night fishermen – and 

their warrior tribe, the Toa people of Kawhia Harbour and 

Kapiti Island. Set in the early years of 19th century Aotearoa 

(New Zealand), this story cleverly pulls together a great variety 

of historical strands to create a deep and hauntingly spiritual 

tale.  

 

Read it carefully, for what you will probably think is fiction, 

may be fact. What you swear is fact, is probably fiction. It is 

extremely hard to fathom which is which. It is, however, much 

more… you are quickly, and magically, drawn into this 

different world of courage, spirituality and wizardry, and that 

other ‘real’ dimension is complex, amazing and healing.  

 

A gift of the ancestors, this spell-binding novel is an opening 

of the three sacred baskets of knowledge of the creator god Io, 

the return of one’s soul to the true history and spirit of the 

islands of the Double Sea.  Somewhere in here is your story…