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Catching The Current by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. In this companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad ...Show more
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Heart Of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in h ...Show more
Landings by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people who have made it their home are a diverse collectio ...Show more
Leap of Faith by Jenny Pattrick
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A vivid story of ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. In the early 1900s, the race was on to complete the railroad being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk Line. Regardless of the impassable landscape and risky he ...Show more
The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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 miners down on their luck, ruffians on the run from the law, and s ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
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