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Rachael King

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Born

in New Zealand

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Children's, Young Adult, Fiction

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Rachael King is a writer, book reviewer, and former literary festival director from Aotearoa New Zealand. When she was young, she played bass guitar in rock bands, rode horses bareback along a beach, and voraciously read fantasy books. She is the author of two middlegrade fantasy novels based on Scottish mythology in a New Zealand setting – Red Rocks (republished in 2025 as Secrets at Red Rocks to coincide with the Emmy-nominated television adaptation) and The Grimmelings; a junior fiction series Violet and the Velvets; and a YA folk horror fantasy due in 2026, Song of the Saltings. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the Victoria University Wellington, and has also written two books for adults, The Sound of Butterflies and Magpie Hall ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 2,007 ratings · 372 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sound of Butterflies 3.39 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grimmelings 4.17 avg rating — 317 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magpie Hall 3.70 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Rocks 3.92 avg rating — 205 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Missing Stuff 4.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Angry Ghost 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of the Saltings 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky by Sarah Pepperle (Editor), Peter Vangione, Rachael King (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Viral Video (Violet and the Velvets, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Violet and the Velvets (3 books)
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

by Deborah Levy

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Night Waking

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What should be our October Read Around the World (Oceania)?

The Bone People by Keri Hulme - New Zealand

10 votes 38.5%

Magpie Hall by Rachael King - New Zealand

4 votes 15.4%

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood - Australia

4 votes 15.4%

Euphoria by Lily King - New Guinea

3 votes 11.5%

The Colour by Rose Tremain - New Zealand

2 votes 7.7%

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - Australia

2 votes 7.7%

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright - Australia

1 vote 3.8%

Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar - Australia

0 votes 0.0%

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