Rachael King Collection

Rachael King is a writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player living in +?tautahi Christchurch. She's the author of two standalone novels for children- Red Rocks, which won the Esther Glen Medal in 2013 and The Grimmelings, published in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. It topped the bestselling NZ junior fiction list in 2024, was shortlisted for the NZBACYA and won a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award. Rachael is publishing the first book in a junior chapter book series, Violet and the Velvets, in 2025. Her two novels for adult readers, The Sound of Butterflies and Magpie Hall, were published in nine languages altogether. Rachael received a Waitangi Day Honour Award in 2020 from the New Zealand Society of Authors for her work at WORD Christchurch bringing Behrouz Boochani to New Zealand. In 2023 she was named Best Reviewer at the Voyager New Zealand Media Awards.