Zoo Noise by Mark Peters
October 2026
ISBN: 978-1-7385945-4-2
RRP: $40.00
A new party drug ‘rage’ threatens to ravage the streets of Auckland. In a city panicked by the drug’s rise, Farr Paddock, a reclusive hunchback, is driven into hiding by threats of violence over his obsession with Tegan Goldacre, a rising starlet with ruthless instincts and a talent for reinvention.
Demonised as a ‛rage-fuelled monster’ and with no one he can trust, Paddock’s life hangs by a thread.
Zoo Noise skewers celebrity culture, influencer power and the crowd’s hunger for outrage. Fusing theatre, crime and satire, it dives towards a reckoning as savage as it is absurd.
‘Sumptuously noir. A startlingly original K’ Rd novel – hectic, hilarious and harrowing.’ — Mike Johnson
Mark Peters has worked as a roadie, stagehand, English teacher and journalist, and currently works as a bookshop assistant. In 2022, he published The Mudge Murals, a book about the large-scale works of a Gisborne artist. Zoo Noise is his first novel.