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Rachael King

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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 a 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. In 2023 she was ...more

Average rating: 3.63 · 1,890 ratings · 347 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Sound of Butterflies

3.38 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
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Magpie Hall

3.70 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Grimmelings

4.21 avg rating — 260 ratings9 editions
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Red Rocks

3.93 avg rating — 188 ratings5 editions
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Polls

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%

 
  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%

 
  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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