Poor People With Money (2022)
Published by Penguin
Monday Wooldridge is a fighter with a face like a broken dinner plate. Fifteen years ago, her kid brother Eddy disappeared and she’s been looking for him ever since.
When she’s not training, Monday works in a bar selling drinks to rich assholes and dreaming of escape.
Together with her flatmate JJ, Monday comes up with a scheme to make enough money to lift them both out of debt. But when things go awry, fleeing the city is their only option to escape the gangsters, the vampires and the ghosts of Monday’s past.
I Thought We’d Be Famous (2019)
Published by Dead Bird Books
I Thought We’d Be Famous is a line in the sand. It's a look back on Dominic’s days pre chronic illness, and a new life of blood tests and cancer scares. It’s about the dreams that rusted in the backyard and the ones he ended up living. It's about the guilt in his blood after escaping a life of welfare and minimum wage. It's about the absurdity of trying to make sense of this broken society. It's about Channing Tatum and Edward Furlong and Chilli the Pomeranian and the teacher who beat us half to death and killing your landlord and sleeping with zombies and falling in love so hard you wake up concussed.
Iceland (2017)
Published by Steele Roberts
This book spent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, was long-listed for the Ockham book awards and listed on the Listeners best books.
Synopsis: Stuck in a dead-end office job, Zlata hopes for a record deal so she can escape Auckland city. Then at party she meets Hamish, a graffiti artist and part-time drug dealer. Each has their own ideas about the other’s life, and surrounded by a makeshift family of friends and ex-lovers, their dreams of music, art and travel take shape. But as quickly as things come together, they can be torn apart — unravelling relationships and lives.
Feel Like Shit Looking Great (2015)
Self-published
Feel Like Shit Looking Great spawned three video clips and the hit "John Key's Son's a DJ".
Synopsis: Presented in the form of a lyric book, designed by delinquent polymath Roy Irwin, Feel Like Shit, Looking Great!, documents Dominic’s journey through the health system, searching for meaning in a neo liberal theme park and the quiet madness and beauty of the New Zealand countryside.
A collaboration with musical wunderkind, Abraham Kunin, the project is a mix of poetry, stories and the odd rap, over Abraham’s brilliant and often haunting compositions.
Party Tricks and Boring Secrets (2014)
Self-published
Party Tricks and Boring Secrets was a collaboration between Dominic and Auckland artist Josh Solomon.
Synopsis: Party Tricks and Boring Secrets is a pink little book crammed full of art, poetry and prose.