The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: The Denniston Rose 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
The bleak coal-mining of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother. Set in the 1880s, this is story of a spirited child who remains a survivor. First published 2003. ...Show more
The General and the Nightingale by Dan Davin
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davins 20 war stories, some drawn from his war diaries and loosely based on hi ...Show more
The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham
$32.99 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
"A powerful, haunting debut"--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love. Germany ...Show more
The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The compelling story of Rose in the best-selling Denniston novels has drawn thousands of people to explore the abandoned settlement on the South Island's remote West Coast. The original inhabitants braved a 2000-feet-high and terrifyingly steep incline, a severe climate and scarce resources to eke out a ...Show more
The Last Duel: Now a major film starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer by Eric Jager
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight's beautiful young wife. Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris mon ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease – they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’ It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, a ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of tw ...Show more
The Naturalist by Thom Conroy
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A fascinating, moving novel based on the real life of Dr Ernst Dieffenbach: scientist, explorer, revolutionary, outcast. Dieffenbach arrived in New Zealand in 1839 as a naturalist. What he discovered was fascinating, but what his prescient records didn't reveal was his own intriguing story. This compell ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'The editors ...have cast their nets widely indeed. They have produced a volume that no-one with an interest in wars in which this country has become ensnared should miss reading. The book is a vast treasure trove of material'. - Otago Daily Times Warfare, both at home and abroad, has shaped the way New ...Show more
The Runaway Settlers by Elsie Locke
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
HarperCollins brings back into print a New Zealand classic. The year is 1859 and the Small family arrives in the new Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life - all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in ...Show more
The Secret Life of James Cook - A Novel by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 1 | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Graeme Lay re-imagines the peerless navigator James Cook's life up to, and including, his first circumnavigation of the world. A fictionalised account of the famous navigator's early life, The Secret Life of James Cook Cook's youthful ambitions, his early naval career, his marriage to Elizabeth ...Show more