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
Red Traitor (#2 Alexander Vasin Trilogy) by Owen Matthews
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
The author of the astonishing Black Sun returns with a new Cold War thriller set during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, seen from a bone-chilling vantage point- somewhere off the Florida coastline, trapped aboard the claustrophobic confines of an isolated Soviet submarine with open orders to lau ...Show more
Ripples on the Lake by Dawn Rotarangi
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
A taut, tightly-written paranormal thriller about what happens when a Pakeha family unwittingly invoke an ancient tohunga's curse. When an out-of-it Billy Delaney steals coins from a sacred rock on the shores of Lake Taupo to buy a hamburger late one night, he has no idea what he is about to unleash upo ...Show more
Rivers Ran Red by J.A. Grierson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: The Last of the Romans Trilogy | Reading Level: near fine
In a whirlwind of fire and carnage, Attila the Hun wheels half a million horsemen towards Roman territory. In his path, corruption and greed have undermined the ancient empire and the vacillating emperor, Valentinian III, has cut her legions to a sliver. But out of this smoke a wily, battle-scarred gene ...Show more
Shark Island (A Wiki Coffin Adventure Book 2) by Joan Druett
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Wiki Coffin Adventure Ser.
Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery, brings many skills to his job. Whether he's translating native languages, assisting his good friend Captain George Rochester as unofficial first mate, ...Show more
Skylark by Jenny Pattrick
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
The little French girl, Lily L'Alouette, was singing and dancing almost as soon as she could walk, and performing became as much a part of her as breathing. When she is left an orphan in an unfamiliar country after her parents have emigrated to New Zealand, it is performing in a circus that offers survi ...Show more
Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
The year is 1836. English clergyman William Yates sets sail from London, bound for the mission fields of northern New Zealand. Caught up in a mesmerising love affair that will test the imagination of everyone on board, he is utterly transformed. Against the riveting backdrop of a four-month sea voyag ...Show more
The Bright Side of My Condition by Charlotte Randall
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
"When the Captain find us stowaways and give us the choice between join the island or join the crew, all of us to a man cry island! island! So he put us ashore with a few provisions and a trypot and sail away." After escaping from the Norfolk Island jail on a whaling ship, Bloodworth and three fellow co ...Show more
The Cloud Leopard's Daughter by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife | Reading Level: very good
In the gold fields of the colonies, some make a fortune, some make enemies and some make mistakes. For readers of Bryce Courtenay's POTATO FACTORY, Philippa Gregory and Tracy Chevalier. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III in Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The ne ...Show more
The Conductor by Sarah Quigley
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
A best-selling, compelling and evocatively realised novel based on real events and figures. It has now sold into eight different countries around the world. In June 1941, Nazi troops march on Leningrad and surround it. Hitler's plan is to shell, bomb, and starve the city into submission. Most of the cul ...Show more
The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
Set in the bleak 1880s coal mining settlement of Denniston - an isolated community set high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast - five-year-old Rose and her mother mysteriously arrive in this chaotic community filled with ex-gold miners down on their luck, ruffians on the run from the law, and s ...Show more