Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence by Patricia Grace
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied- urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers fi ...Show more
Tu by Patricia Grace
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
Baby No-Eyes by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitched together by pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No-eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's ...Show more