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Catching The Current by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
29.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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 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
Heartland by Jenny Pattrick
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Heart-warming and compulsive reading, this is an entertaining, lively and moving novel from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. 'Donny Mac was released at Eastertime about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good.' After a short stint in prison on trumped-up char ...Show more
Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick
31.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
38.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Skylark by Jenny Pattrick
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The Denniston Rose 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
The bleak coal-mining of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother. Set in the 1880s, this is story of a spirited child who remains a survivor. First published 2003. ...Show more
The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
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