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Areta & the Kahawai by Patricia Grace
4.95 NZD
Category: Children's Māori Books
Children's picture story book. Baby Areta is playing on the beach with her poi when the kahawai come to entice her into the sea.
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
Baby No-eyes by Patricia Grace
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' s major new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that operate at many levels between generations, where the present is the pivot, the centre of the spiral, looking outward to the past and futur ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a d ...Show more
Chappy by Patricia Grace
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love sto ...Show more
Collected Stories: Patricia Grace ~ by Patricia Grace
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer. Also available as an eBook
Cousins by Patricia Grace
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in a rural Maori coastal community, the humour and aroha of the community are powerful life preserving factors. But there is conflict in the whanau. Te Rua is battling for custody of his daughter against his two aunts. But why are they disputing custody and what is really going on?.
Electric City and other Stories by Patricia Grace
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
These are stories about ordinary folk, largely Maori, leading ordinary lives. Her third collection, Electric City and Other Stories (1987), adds to the group of stories in The Dream Sleepers, centred on the girl Mereana, which Grace originally thought
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more