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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: General fiction
Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts; facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood, aware that he is a disappointment to his father, he acquires, the trappings of respectability, success in business and a family. But in Albion's soul remai ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
40.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in the fine house her father is so proud of, a strong-willed young woman who's certain where her future lies. She's known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill (a sequel to The Secret River) by Kate Grenville
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
'From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.' Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
47.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Lt Daniel Rooke, a young astronomer, sails on the First Fleet to a land waiting for scientific discovery. But his attention soon shifts from the stars to Tagaran, an Aboriginal child who begins to teach him her language. As words unfold, a friendship grows. When he is called to duty, Daniel faces a dile ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
35.00 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: General fiction
Kate Grenville's The Secret River was first published in 2005, but, now in soft cover, it remains a firm favourite - and can anyone else write such compelling and vividly mmemorable historical fiction and illustrate so clearly the issues around colonisation?
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
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