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Jenny Pattrick
A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of…
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Heart - warming and compulsive reading, this is an entertaining, lively and moving novel from one of New Zealand’s favourite authors….
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A vivid novel about ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love…
On the run from an unfortunate ‘indiscretion’, young Conrad Rasmussen finds refuge in the North Island of New Zealand under the employ of the famous (or notorious) Dane, Bishop Monrad…
A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal - mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New…
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A lively, unconventional love story set amid real figures from nineteenth-century theatre, from the author of the best-selling The Denniston Rose. The little French girl, Lily Alouette, was singing and…
A distant land, a new life, an escape from the past.
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one…
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The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand’s West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. It is the…
This sequel to the best-selling The Denniston Rose continues to follow the fortunes of the remote West Coast coal-mining settlement. Heart of Coal is about loss and love, hope and…
Vivid and evocative, this is a moving novel of a unique time and place from one of New Zealand’s favourite authors. The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth…
Inheritance is a novel of contrasts: the tropical beauty and exuberance of Samoa in the 1960s; and the dark violence that arises from the conflict between truthfulness and love.
