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
Beyond the Breakwater: Stories 1948-1998 by O E Middleton
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Beyond the Breakwater brings together twenty-six outstanding short stories spanning half a century by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton. While Middleton has been linked with the masculine realist New Zealand tradition of Frank Sargeson and Roderick Finlayson, Beyond the Breakwater also co ...Show more
Birthright (Banquo Trilogy #3) by T. K. Roxborogh
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Banquo Trilogy
Birthright is the heart-stopping conclusion to T. K. Roxborogh's epic Banquo's Son series. Fleance, King of Scotland, has made a political marriage to Rachel, the sister of dead King Duncan. It may seem that happiness is not far around the corner with a royal baby expected, but things are far from peace ...Show more
Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Bulibasha is the title given to the King of the Gypsies, and on the East Coast of New Zealand two patriarchs fight to be proclaimed the king. Tamihana is the leader of the great Mahana family of shearers and sportsmen and women. Rupeni Poata is his arch enemy. The two families clash constantly, in sport ...Show more
Catching The Current by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. In this companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad ...Show more
Catching the Current by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
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. However Conrad - a talented and impetuous Faroeman, known in Jenny Pattrick's Denniston novels as Con the Brake - finds ...Show more
Coastwatcher by David Hill
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winning author David Hill. 'It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs will ...Show more
Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
A bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction. CUNNING WOMEN is sure to be loved by fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mercies. They only want a kindness, but beware, for if you have no coin, they will curse you black and blue. 1620s, Lancashire. Away from the village lies a small ...Show more
Daylight Second by Kelly Ana Morey
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The incredible story, for the first time told in novel form, of Phar Lap, the racehorse that became a champion, and then a legend. And he's done it folks ...Phar Lap first, daylight second. In a new novel about the Australian race horse Phar Lap, award -winning writer, Kelly Ana Morey recreates the shor ...Show more
Ephemera by Tina Shaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
"We were probably doomed from the moment the virus hit the airports..." - from the opening chapter of an insanely prescient new novel by Tina Shaw, written before the Covid-19 crisis. After an international meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, has shut down. No electricity, no broad ...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