Continuing to follow the fortunes of the remote coal mining settlement in The Denniston Rose, this sequel revisits the close-knit community on New Zealand’s West Coast. Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived in Denniston, and she h...
Set in the New Zealand of the 1990s, this tender and amusing novel tells the story of one woman’s quest to stay loyal to letter writing while resisting the emerging trend of e-mail. Through her stories and correspondence, her friendship...
On the run from an unfortunate indiscretion, young Conrad Rasmussen finds refuge in the North Island of New Zealand under the employ of the famous -- or notorious -- Dane, Bishop Monrad. Conrad’s story stretches across new lands, old songs, seafa...
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...
This tender and amusing novel is set in New Zealand in the nineties, with the Springbok Tour still a recent memory, and as the country debates whether to adopt MMP. Letter-writing is about to give way to email, but elderly Grace will resist the trend...
A vivid novel about ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love ...