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A Conversation with My Country: Where We've Come From. Where We Can Go by Alan Duff
38.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
A personal account reviewing an eventful life and an amazing country. Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote his hard-hitting book Maori- The Crisis and the Challenge in 1993. His controversial comments shook the country. A quarter of a century later, New Zealand and Maoridom are in a very differ ...Show more
Dreamboat Dad by Alan Duff
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier visiting during the Second World War) was his father. The locals gave the boy the n ...Show more
Duffy's Once Were Worriers by Duff, Alan
9.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Duffy
The world is full of things to worry about and Duffy is the perfect worrier. In this story, he's forced to confront some of his many worries to stop them from controlling his life. Though as usual with Duffy, his vivid imagination plays its part in getting him in and out of trouble.
Frederick's Coat by Alan Duff
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
From the author of the best-selling Once Were Warriors, a powerful story of love between father and son, of contrasting ways of looking at the world and of revenge. When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in so ...Show more
Jake's Long Shadow by Alan Duff
44.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What of Jake and Beth's children, the hulking brothers Huata and Abe who have rejected violence? And Polly, Grace's beautiful sister; intelligent, confident, who falls in love with a polo-playing Pakeha from a good family and the pair become property investors. What of Jake himself?
Jake's Long Shadow: The final part of the Once Were Warriors trilogy by Alan Duff
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake, and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him. Polly, as beautiful as her sister Grace, who committed suicide; is that a Heke running with the wealthy polo-playing set and growing ...Show more
Maori - The Crisis and the Challenge by Alan Duff
34.40 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Written in 1991, this book and it's findings are still relevant now in 2023. Written by Alan Duff, author of "Once were Warriors" and many other excellent books. The theme of this book is mainly that the problems being experienced by many Maori people in New Zealand is due to a failure to gain a work et ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A New Zealand classic, this novel is a raw and powerful portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. Alan Duff's groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and is now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncomprom ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: Very Good
Classic hard look at one side of modern urban Maori life. A world wide bestseller.
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Classic hard look at one side of modern urban Maori life. A world wide bestseller.
One Night Out Stealing by Alan Duff
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
Boys' homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again - and again. That's been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies. In this, Alan Duff's second powerful novel, the author confirms his skills as a gripping story-teller an ...Show more