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December 1942. For thirteen-year-old Gloria Walters, the war is a boring background noise – until Japanese commandos land on her local Coromandel beach. Kidnapped and thrust into a terrifying struggle for survival, Gloria must find the resourceful hero within to save her brother, her friend, and her small coastal New Zealand town
Maurice O’Brien is an Irish youth struggling the transition from boyhood to manhood in Ireland in the 1830’s. When trouble finds him, he lands in court and faces the sentence for convicts; transportation to Botany Bay – the other side of the world. Based on the true stories of thousands of men and women who were convicted and transported to the continent now known as Australia.
Maurice O’Brien is an Irish convict in the New South Wales penal colony – a wild and dangerous place. He grapples with despair and loneliness of the Outback. Escape is almost impossible, but those who do find themselves in the land of heathen savages. Each chapter is based on true stories of convicts in the Outback of the continent now known as Australia, and New Zealand, and the Sea in between.
When Maurice O’Brien reaches New Zealand he is a mutineer and an escaped convict. Surviving in the so-called land of heathen savages and cannibals is as difficult and dangerous as New South Wales. He now has to settle in a new land and culture. Each chapter is based on true stories around New Zealand.
In spite of the dangers of sailing small boats around Cook Strait and surviving a gunfight with one of the most ferocious musket armed Maori tribes, Maurice O’Brien has made New Zealand his home. But the call of Ireland tears his loyalty in two when he least expects it. Is the land of his birthplace still his real homeland? Despite being a convict, barred from returning to any British Isle, Maurice sets sail again to find out. Each chapter is based on true stories around New Zealand and Ireland and the Seas in between.
Having tempted fate and revisited Ireland, Maurice O’Brien is grief-stricken at the state of his homeland following the devastation of the potato famine a few years earlier. Disease, starvation and forced immigration have all but depopulated many parts of the country. His family no longer exists, and the country is in ruins. Maurice decides to return home to New Zealand but finding a ship heading for New Zealand proves difficult, and he is forced to find work in England to survive.
Driven from their ancestral homelands of Kawhia and Taharoa by powerful tribes of Waikato and Ngati Maniapoto. Te Rauparaha leads his tribe, Ngati Toarangatira, south to Manawatu and Horowhenua in the largest known migration in New Zealand’s history. The second in the trilogy of the legend; Te Rauparaha.
The first of a historical fiction trilogy based on the true events of Ngati Toarangatira and their fighting leader, Te Rauparaha. Told through the eyes of a slave, Te Rou Rou, the story gives incredible insight to the way Maori people lived before Europeans arrived.
A little boy runs from a killer through a deadly London air raid.
1855. George Hollings has fled London—and the treacherous lover who nearly ruined him—for New Zealand. But the world is smaller than he’d hoped. When his former lover resurfaces, carrying a threat that could destroy his fragile new life, George is forced to run again…
In the summer of 1966, a young teacher is dispatched to remote Ngarimu Valley School as a Probationary Assistant. Vulnerable and inexperienced, how will she survive – and how will her year in The Valley impact the rest of her life?
Can one woman’s secrets change the life of another a century later?
A grieving widow, a century old journal, a missing portrait, and an engaging art historian. Megan is drawn into a web of secrets.
A family saga set in NZ and England, this story traces whānau across generations and cultures, blending rich historical detail with emotional storytelling and mysteries that connect past and present.
A compilation of four different stories set during or around the theme of war.
An 1870 visit by Armed Constabulary Sergeant Patrick Kelly to the rugged Great Barrier Island turns into investigating a shipwreck, and a brush with pirates. Later in the Northern gumfields, Kelly finds himself alone facing a murderer, who tries to hunt him down and kill him.
In disgrace with his superiors, Sergeant Patrick Kelly, is not impressed to be put in charge of Tom, the baby elephant, accompanying Prince Alfred on a visit to New Zealand. However, when Fenians from the Thames goldfields decide to assassinate the Prince, Kelly finds himself in the thick of the action receiving some unexpected help from Tom.
In the midst of WWII, New Zealand faces a labour shortage as the nation’s men leave to serve overseas. To fill the gap, young women are called upon to work the land, becoming ‘land girls’.
Three continents, two centuries, one woman, and a mystery to unite them all.
Researching her family tree had seemed like such an ordinary thing to do.
After the end of the war in Europe, Tom Blake finds out he has a child lost somewhere in France.
A heart-rending tale of enduring love.
A gripping tale of transformation, resilience, and the enduring power of love set against historical turmoil.
Kiwi Land Girls Series Book 1 – life, love, and resilience on the home front in New Zealand.
Kiwi Land Girls Series Book 2 – life, love, and resilience on the home front in New Zealand
Kiwi Land Girls Series Book 3 – life, love, and resilience on the home front in New Zealand.
Kiwi Land Girls Series Book 4 – life, love, and resilience on the home front in New Zealand.
Continuing the story begun in Finding Miriama – this historical novel explores how the choices of our ancestors echo through time.
Explore the powerful journey of identity and chasing dreams in this gripping historical novel.
A heart-rending tale of Irish immigration in the 1880s. (The New Zealand Immigrant Collection)
What does a farm boy do when he falls for a Victorian socialite? He goes to War! A New Zealand historical novel.
An ordinary man, who lived through extraordinary times. A historical family saga. (Ancestors Book 1)
A sequel. Another historical novel of family, friendship and love.
