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Alice & Luigi
“Graeme Lay brings to tumultuous life all of Luigi’s triumphs and tragedies as he strives for a new beginning in 19th century New Zealand. And every reader will surely remember Alice, Luigi’s great love, as one of the most indomitable heroines ever.” Stephanie Johnson
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Fletchers
A Centennial History of Fletcher Building
This centennial history sets the company’s history in the broadest political and economic context. It traces the many dilemmas its leaders faced as they searched for growth and responded to the relentless challenges of business: slumps, credit squeezes, marauding governments and asset strippers, capricious policy makers, demanding customers, internal arguments, fleet-footed new competitors and changing investor attitudes.
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Gravel Roads
Like the view from a cracked wing mirror, each chapter reveals another sharp reflection of the characters who inhabit the Ails Valley. Revealed in fragments, their lives overlap and intertwine through decades. Humour and tragedy coexist for these unpretentious people, as their lives intersect, collide, fall apart and move on.
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Joybird
An intriguing tale of three intrepid women, seemingly unaware of each other and of the connections between them. It is a delightful story of pain and loss, and choosing to be happy…
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The New Zealand Book of the Beach
The writing in this anthology reflects the power of the beach to inspire, rejuvenate and occasionally, to seduce us. “One of the real gems: a superb thematic anthology from the cream of New Zealand
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The Myers
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor.
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Tohunga: Hohepa Kereopa
For the first time, the world of the tohunga – which up until now has lain carefully concealed for centuries – is brought out into the open. Subject matters ranging from natural healing to modern life offer an exclusive insight into the realm of a great tohunga.
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Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten
New Zealand Writers and Childhood
In this wonderful collection of stories and memoir from childhood twenty-six distinguished New Zealand writers evoke memories of their early years. Their stories and memoirs resonate with love and betrayal, friendship and disloyalty, elation and anxiety. The writing features parents and teachers, peers, siblings and other relatives, the loveable and the unloveable. There are wondrous discoveries of the natural and cultural world and glimpses into the enigmatic realm that is adulthood.
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