Dead Ends
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ISBN 9780473741907
Fiction
In the dark, uncanny world of Dead Ends, our ghosts live alongside us, break ups come with a grisly cost, and there really are monsters under the bed. Laura Borrowdale’s sophomore collection is full of the horrors of domestic banality, parenting, relationships, and womanhood. With deft and exacting prose, Borrowdale’s stories reflect our own lives back at us told slant, revealing where something sinister lives just beneath the surface.
By Laura Borrowdale
Published by Tender Press
Released September 2025
Soft cover
152 pages
135 x 210mm, upright
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Author Bio
Laura Borrowdale is a short story writer from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her first collection of stories, Sex, with Animals, was published in 2020, and was selected as one of Newsroom’s top novels of the year. She is one quarter of ngā pukapuka pekapeka, a chapbook micro press. She reviews books widely, mentors creative writers at the Hagley Writers’ Institute, and teaches English at a local high school.
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473741907
Fiction
In the dark, uncanny world of Dead Ends, our ghosts live alongside us, break ups come with a grisly cost, and there really are monsters under the bed. Laura Borrowdale’s sophomore collection is full of the horrors of domestic banality, parenting, relationships, and womanhood. With deft and exacting prose, Borrowdale’s stories reflect our own lives back at us told slant, revealing where something sinister lives just beneath the surface.
By Laura Borrowdale
Published by Tender Press
Released September 2025
Soft cover
152 pages
135 x 210mm, upright
Download NTI Sheet
Author Bio
Laura Borrowdale is a short story writer from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her first collection of stories, Sex, with Animals, was published in 2020, and was selected as one of Newsroom’s top novels of the year. She is one quarter of ngā pukapuka pekapeka, a chapbook micro press. She reviews books widely, mentors creative writers at the Hagley Writers’ Institute, and teaches English at a local high school.
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473741907
Fiction
In the dark, uncanny world of Dead Ends, our ghosts live alongside us, break ups come with a grisly cost, and there really are monsters under the bed. Laura Borrowdale’s sophomore collection is full of the horrors of domestic banality, parenting, relationships, and womanhood. With deft and exacting prose, Borrowdale’s stories reflect our own lives back at us told slant, revealing where something sinister lives just beneath the surface.
By Laura Borrowdale
Published by Tender Press
Released September 2025
Soft cover
152 pages
135 x 210mm, upright
Download NTI Sheet
Author Bio
Laura Borrowdale is a short story writer from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her first collection of stories, Sex, with Animals, was published in 2020, and was selected as one of Newsroom’s top novels of the year. She is one quarter of ngā pukapuka pekapeka, a chapbook micro press. She reviews books widely, mentors creative writers at the Hagley Writers’ Institute, and teaches English at a local high school.