First Touch of Light by Ruth Pettis
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
This is the second of two novels by the late Diane (Ruth) Pettis, who died in mid-2008. Beautifully written, it deals with the devastating impact of World War II on George, a New Zealand soldier who spent four years in Italy and Africa, his wife Ellen, and their family. George returns home from the war ...Show more
Fletcher of the Bounty by Graeme Lay
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of Fletcher Christian, sailor, adventurer and mutineer of the HMS Bounty. On the 28th of April 1789, mutineer Fletcher Christian seized command of the ship HMS Bounty from its captain, William Bligh. Fletcher of the Bounty is a fictional account of the Tahitian voyage, the mutiny and its myste ...Show more
Foul Lady Fortune (#1 Foul Lady Fortune) by Chloe Gong
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Foul Lady Fortune | Reading Level: 13 - 18
Assassin. Immortal. Spy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai. It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the ...Show more
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Heart Of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in h ...Show more
Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in h ...Show more
Heloise by Mandy Hager
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably cros ...Show more
In Our Own Back Yard by Anne Kayes
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
It's March 2020 and Liza, her husband and two teenage children are at home in Auckland in level-four lockdown due to Covid-19. Reflections with her family around the dining table inspire Liza to reflect on another challenging time in history nearly forty years before when the South African Springbok rug ...Show more
In Touch with Grace by Jenny Pattrick
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
This tender and amusing novel is set in the nineties, with the Springbok Tour still a recent memory, and as the country debates whether to adopt MMP. Letter-writing is about to give way to email but elderly Grace will resist the trend. Through letters and stories, we learn of her friendships, the intera ...Show more
Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. But why should Jeanie avoid her after twenty-four years apart? They had been so close when they were young women, when Jeanie had turned up in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father, who had unexpectedly inherite ...Show more
Jack & Sandy by Bob Kerr
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
New Zealand, 2001: Jack and his best mate Eddie have finished high school, but before they make any decisions about their future, they are embarking on a week-long kayaking adventure. Unbeknown to Jack's father, this trip includes a mission to meet Jack's long-estranged Grandfather, Sandy. Scotland, 19 ...Show more
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