James Cook's Lost World by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: Very Good
On his third and tragic voyage of discovery Captain James Cook traverses the world yet again, increasingly and uncharacteristically brutal toward his crew, and on a fateful course with destiny. It seems that having discovered a new world, we have been doomed to then lose it. The year is 1775. Captain Ja ...Show more
James Cook's New World by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: very good
The sensational fictionalised account of James Cook's extraordinary second voyage of discovery, from the tropical isles of Polynesia to the icey seas of the great Southern Ocean, the furthest south anyone had ever sailed. James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond i ...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
Kitty by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
When eighteen-year-old Kitty CarlisleÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banis ...Show more
Labour: the New Zealand Labour Party 1916-2016 by Franks Peter Mcaloon Jim
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
The Labour Party is New Zealand's oldest political party. On 7 July 2016 it celebrates a hundred years of commitment to democracy, social justice and economic developmenta commitment that has often made for precarious balancing acts. First in government from 19351949, Labour set the terms of economic ...Show more
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collectio ...Show more
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collectio ...Show more
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky he ...Show more
Lives we Leave Behind by Maxine Alterio
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
In July 1915 the hospital ship Maheno leaves Wellington with seventy New Zealand nurses on board. Addie Harrington and Meg Dutton are assigned to the same cabin. Quiet and cautious, Addie is taken aback by her impetuous, fun-loving roommate. The two women seem to have little in common other than a desir ...Show more
Maori Myth and Legend: Traditional Stories by A. W. Reed
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
The Maori have a rich and colourful tradition of myth and legend - many of their most important and popular tales are retold in this classic, bestselling book. Written with the general reader in mind, the stories range from the creation of the world to the coming of life, death and knowledge. They incor ...Show more
March to the Sound of the Guns by Ray Grover
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
During World War I New Zealand shipped one hundred thousand young men halfway round the world to fight at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Eighteen thousand were killed - a death rate of nearly one in five. Thousands more were maimed physically and emotionally. The men had gone with the encouragement of ...Show more