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A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand by Paula Morris & Alison Wong
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A landmark anthology of creative work – poetry, fiction and essays – by emerging Asian New Zealand writers. This landmark collection of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging writers is the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing. A Clear Dawn presents an extraordinary new wave of cre ...Show more
Dark Souls by Paula Morris
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Miranda Tennant arrives in York - the most haunted city in the world - with a terrible, tragic secret. Eager to lose herself amid the quaint cobblestones, she meets Nick, an intense, dark-eyed boy who knows all of York's hidden places and histories. But soon, Miranda realizes that something dangerous - ...Show more
Dark Souls by Paula Morris
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Welcome to York, England.Mist lingers in the streets. Narrow buildings cast long shadows.This is the most haunted city in the world. . . . Miranda Tennant arrives in York with a terrible, tragic secret. She is eager to lose herself amid the quaint cobblestones, hoping she won't run into the countless gh ...Show more
False River: Stories/Essays/Secret Histories by Paula Morris
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true ac ...Show more
Hibiscus Coast by Paula Morris
$31.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Emma Paupere has just returned to New Zealand from Shanghai, where her training as a painter has made her a copyist of incredible skill. Now, Siaki, her ambitious and manipulative ex-boyfriend, has recruited her as a forger, shutting Emma away in a borrowed apartment on Prices Warf. In a room housing t ...Show more
Hibiscus Coast by Paula Morris
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Artist Emma Taupere is drawn into an international plot involving the theft and forgery of Goldie paintings. When her teenage cousin Ani gets involved, Emma is on the run and in real danger. Award-winning author Paula Morris has meticulously depicted an art world inhabited by collectors who will do almo ...Show more
Ko Aotearoa Tatou / We Are New Zealand - an anthology by Michelle Elvy; Paula Morris; James Norcliffe
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. K ...Show more
On Coming Home (BWB Texts) by Paula Morris
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The declamatory return; a homeland as a 'wearying enigma'. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?' Award-winning writer Paula Morris confront ...Show more
Queen of Beauty by Paula Morris
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Young Kiwi Virginia is working in New Orleans, researching possible storylines for a noted writer. Returning home to West Auckland for her sister's wedding, she discovers fascinating stories from her own family's past. This is a wonderful, award-winning novel from an exciting new author. Paula Morris, o ...Show more
Rangatira by Paula Morris
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: good
Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey there, twenty years earlier, with a party of northern ran ...Show more
Ruined : A Novel by Paula Morris
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Welcome to New Orleans - city of voodoo and beauty, of hurricanes and hauntings. Rebecca Brown couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to live while her dad is away in China on business. She's staying in a creepy house with her tarot-reading aunt, and at the snooty prep school t ...Show more
Ruined: A Novel (#1) by Paula Morris
$20.50 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Ruined | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans. She's staying in a creepy house with her aunt, who reads tarot cards. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey gives Rebecca the time of day, but she wonder ...Show more