Defying danger

Year 8 student Nissa loves her family trips to Fiordland. Not for the stag hunting so beloved of her older brothers, but for the ancient bush: lush, isolated and untouched by the modern world. Obsessed by glowing lights from the forest that have beckoned her over years of summer holidays, Nis finds an unexpected ally in family friend Tama. When their intermediate-school class goes on a camp to Deep Cove, she’s determined to discover an explanation.

There’s an awful lot going on in South-land-bred broadcast journalist Sonya Wilson’s first novel, SPARK HUNTER (Cuba Press, $25), an