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Kitty by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction
When eighteen-year-old Kitty CarlisleÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banis ...Show more
Tamar (Children Of War Trilogy #1) by Deborah Challinor
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Children of War Trilogy
When Tamar Deane is orphaned at seventeen in a small Cornish village, she seizes the chance for a new life and emigrates to New Zealand. In March 1879, alone and frightened on the Plymouth quay, she is befriended by an extraordinary woman. Myrna McTaggert is travelling to Auckland with plans to establis ...Show more
The Cloud Leopard's Daughter by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife | Reading Level: very good
In the gold fields of the colonies, some make a fortune, some make enemies and some make mistakes. For readers of Bryce Courtenay's POTATO FACTORY, Philippa Gregory and Tracy Chevalier. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III in Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The ne ...Show more
The Jacaranda House by Deborah Challinor
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Restless Years | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her bra ...Show more
The Leonard Girls by Deborah Challinor
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: The Restless Years | Reading Level: good-very good
Rowie's pro-war, her sister Jo's a protester. And they're both in Vietnam. The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the Ashes In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wound ...Show more
The Silk Thief by Deborah Challinor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ historical fiction | Series: The\Convict Girls Ser. | Reading Level: very good
1830s Sydney Town - with its bar brawls, blackmail, friendship, romance, tattoos, gin and much more - is brought vividly to life as fiesty prostitute Friday, naive seamstress Harrie and cunning thief Sarah try to make their way as transported convict women. Driven by madness ... saved by love. 'A door s ...Show more