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Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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: New Zealand 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
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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: New Zealand 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
The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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 (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
$15.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
The Very Important Godwit (Book & CD) by Jenny & Laugton Pattrick
$36.99 NZD
Category: Children's books
Little Will can count lots of adult godwits, but why can't he see any godwit chicks? The answer is more incredible than he could possibly imagine. Beautifully illustrated by Jez Tuya, this delightful story explains the migration of this fascinating bird to the other side of the world to lay their eggs. ...Show more
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