Louisa Alice Baker spent much of her early life in New Zealand, settling in Christchurch with her missionary parents as a child. She married at 18, an...
Kimble Bent is an enigmatic figure in NZ History - an American-born soldier in the Biritsh Army who deserted to go and live among the Māori from 1865....
Dickey Barrett with his ancient mariners and much more ancient cannon at the siege of Moturoa: being a realistic story of the rough old times in New Z...
Originally published 1880, this is a short book consisting of four stories told by four men around a fire on the New Zealand goldfields. As you might ...
Robin Hyde was a writer and journalist in New Zealand in the very early twentieth century. She started out writing under her given name Iris (Guiver) ...
I won't lie to you, The Old Whaling Days is a massive book. On my ereader it was well over 1000 pages. And it can be a difficult read at times - it's ...
The Te Ara biography of Helen Wilson says of her: "White-haired and blind, using an ear trumpet and an 'impatient white stick', Helen Wilson impressed...
I’m not one for romance novels, as a rule. When I become engrossed by them, it’s usually for reasons beyond the love story, and that was definitely th...
