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A Tattooed Heart (Convict Girls #4) by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Convict Girls
The fourth and final book in the epic Convict Girls saga from bestselling author Deborah Challinor, vividly bringing the past and its people to life. 1832: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Sarah Morgan and Harriet Clarke have been serving their sentences in Sydney Town for three years. For much of that time ...Show more
Band of Gold by Deborah Challinor
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife Ser.
On the goldfields of Ballarat vows are broken - can a wounded heart ever forgive? When the Yarrowee River bursts its banks, Rian Farrell, a dashing Irish sea captain and part-time gunrunner, disappears in the torrential flood. Believing herself a widow, the headstrong and passionate Kitty Farrell's hear ...Show more
Behind the Sun by Deborah Challinor
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Convict Girls Ser.
Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke. On the voyage to New ...Show more
Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1) by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Convict Girls
Four women on a perilous journey to a new world, can rely only on their wits to survive ...and each other Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. there, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morg ...Show more
Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
Blue Smoke (Children Of War Trilogy #3) by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Children of War Trilogy
On 3 February 1931 Napier is hit by an earthquake, and Tamar Murdoch is seriously injured. As she recovers, she is preoccupied with the ongoing effects of the Great Depression, and her family is once again threatened by war and heartbreak when her grandson threatens to join the International Brigade. ...Show more
Fire by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances. Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Allie Manaia must navigate society's disapproval of her mixed-race marriage to Sonny, while at the same time attempting to cope with the death of their baby, and undiagnosed PTSD - a result of being caught in the Dunbar & Jones department store fire two years earlier. Allie's grief, and her distress ...Show more
Girl of Shadows (Convict Girls #2) by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Convict Girls
The adventures of the transported convict women continue in this stunning sequel to Behind the Sun. Philippa Gregory meets Bryce Courtenay as Sydney's history comes vividly to life. What had they done? What had she and Sarah and Friday done? 1830: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Harriet Clarke and Sarah Mo ...Show more
Grey Ghosts by Deborah Challinor
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
"We were known to the enemy as 'grey ghosts'. We could be here, and we could be there..." The Grey Ghosts were New Zealand's Vietnam veterans. Their powerful story includes chilling accounts of death, injuries and emotional breakdown, along with the intense comradeship of soldiering, and a pervasive sen ...Show more
Isle of Tears by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists. When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha, not everyone can choose sides easily. For Isla McKinnon, the choices are bitter. Taken in by local Maori when her parents are ...Show more
Kitty by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies in 1838, her mother is left with little more than the possibility of her beautiful daughter making a good marriage. But when Kitty is compromised by an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is destroyed. In disgrace, she is banished to the colonies with he ...Show more