This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by Dollarmen -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to a...
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief.
Patricia Grace's major new...
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....
In this collection of Patricia Grace's stories we meet the sky people, those under the guardianship of Ranginui and Sky Parent, who are the unwanted, the dispossessed, the wounded in love. But shining through even the darkest human condition is the l...
Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' 'See there, dummy, you're nowhere near dead.' 'Well, I don't believe you. How would you know?' 'Of course I know, I do, I do, I know all about it. ' Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationshi...
There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a "secret for life, the one to die with." But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told.
"The Sisters" are threatening to ...
This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old w...
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary...
The Dream Sleepers - stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien....
These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder ...
AN EGG CRACKS - WHAT WILL HATCH? What if an absent-minded Wizard left a mysterious blue egg with you and then, POOF, disappeared? Would you know what to do with it? Where would you put it? How would you keep it safe and warm? What do you imagine coul...
DISPOSITION BY DEFINITION? The Book of Knowledge holds the answers to every question. Flint the Dragon becomes horrified when he finds out what it says about the nature of dragons. What if, like Flint, others expected you to be someone you are not? W...