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A Tattooed Heart (Convict Girls #4) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The\Convict Girls Ser.
The fourth and final book in the epic Convict Girls saga from bestselling author Deborah Challinor, vividly bringing the past and its people to life. 1832: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Sarah Morgan and Harriet Clarke have been serving their sentences in Sydney Town for three years. For much of that time ...Show more
Amber (The Smuggler's Wife #2) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife Ser.
The second rivetting installment in The Smuggler's Wife series by one of our leading historical novelists. She was Maori, aged anywhere between three and five years old. Her dirty, matted hair hung past her shoulders, and sweet, heart-shaped little face was filthy. When Kitty Farrell is offered a trinke ...Show more
Band of Gold (The Smuggler's Wife #3) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife
Book three in the best-selling SMUGGLER'S WIFE series by one of our leading historical novelists. Kitty Farrell, headstrong and passionate as ever, is heartbroken over the apparent death by drowning of her husband Rian. Alone and grieving on the goldfields of Ballarat she turns to Rian's long-time shipm ...Show more
Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Convict Girls
Four women on a perilous journey to a new world, can rely only on their wits to survive ...and each other Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. there, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morg ...Show more
Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
Blue Smoke (Children Of War Trilogy #3) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Children of War Trilogy
On 3 February 1931 Napier is hit by an earthquake, and Tamar Murdoch is seriously injured. As she recovers, she is preoccupied with the ongoing effects of the Great Depression, and her family is once again threatened by war and heartbreak when her grandson threatens to join the International Brigade. ...Show more
Fire by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and sophisticated department stores. An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Allie Manaia must navigate society's disapproval of her mixed-race marriage to Sonny, while at the same time attempting to cope with the death of their baby, and undiagnosed PTSD - a result of being caught in the Dunbar & Jones department store fire two years earlier. Allie's grief, and her distress ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
14.99 NZD
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Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The\Restless Years Ser.
In 1950s Auckland things are changing - and fast. Women are joining the workforce in numbers, white goods are readily available and the age of rock 'n' roll has arrived.Allie Manaia works the Elizabeth Arden counter at Smith and Caugheys. It's been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some o ...Show more
Girl of Shadows (Convict Girls #2) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Convict Girls
The adventures of the transported convict women continue in this stunning sequel to Behind the Sun. Philippa Gregory meets Bryce Courtenay as Sydney's history comes vividly to life. What had they done? What had she and Sarah and Friday done? 1830: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Harriet Clarke and Sarah Mo ...Show more
Isle of Tears by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from New Zealand's favourite historical novelist. A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists. When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha, not every ...Show more
Kitty (The Smuggler's Wife #1) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Smuggler's Wife
When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies 1838, her suddenly impoverished mother is left with little more than the possibility of her beautiful daughter making a good marriage. But when Kitty is compromised by an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is destroyed. In disgrace, she is banished to t ...Show more