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Rosetta Allan

Rosetta Allan is a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based author who completed her Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland (First Class Honours) in 2017 and was awarded the Wallace Trust Scholarship. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Little Rock (2007) and Over Lunch (2010), and recipient of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry and the Metonymy Poetry Awards. Rosetta is a creative writing mentor, teacher, manuscript assessor, essayist, art writer, dog lover, cake maker, and public speaker. She is the author of three bestselling novels released by Penguin Random House NZ, Purgatory (2014), The Unreliable People (2019), and Crazy Love (2021).

Crazy Love MCW Books

Crazy Love

Based on the author's own experiences, this vivid novel explores how - as the Van Morrison song suggests - crazy love can take away the troubles. It can, though, add a whole lot more. 'We save each other, don’t we, when we are in love.' It has been 28 years…
Rosetta Allan
May 10, 2024
The Unreliable People MCW Books

The Unreliable People

Is all love doomed under a heartless regime? Antonina is a student at the prestigious Academy of Art in St Petersburg. At times, though, she feels she might be a better fit at the Centre of Nonconformist Art across town. She knows she stands out as different, being neither Russian,…
Rosetta Allan
May 8, 2024