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Kauri by Joanna Orwin
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
One of the largest trees in the world, the kauri is a natural wonder and a New Zealand icon. Its immense trunk has supplied timber for every conceivable use from Maori war canoes to modern European homes. Along the way, the industries that sprang up around it shaped national culture in ways that still e ...Show more
Owl: A Novel by Joanna Orwin
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: very good
A dark shape hurtled out of the fog...The bird turned in a curving steep dive, aiming for Tama...The boy was being dragged beneath it, his feet barely brushing the tops of tussocks...Owl and Tama could hardly be more different. Owl has a lot to cope with. He's trying to get used to life without his Dad ...Show more
Riccarton and the Deans Family: History and Heritage by Joanna Orwin
$37.99 NZD
$49.99 (24% off)
Category: Canterbury & Christchurch | Reading Level: Near Fine
The story of Riccarton Bush and its association with the Deans family encapsulates the natural and social history of Canterbury. This story began several thousand years ago with an ancient floodplain forest, followed by its long use by Maori. The arrival of the Deans brothers in 1843 to establish the fi ...Show more
Sacrifice by Joanna Orwin
$26.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: very good
THE SACRIFICE is a futuristic novel set in the top of the North Island and the Pacific. Decades earlier, eruptions around the Pacific 'ring of fire', and consequent devastating tsunami, had annihilated Western civilization and technology, along with most of the population. Those who survive revert to hu ...Show more
Shifting Currents by Joanna Orwin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
It is 1853. Widowed Lydia Boulcott has remarried, hoping to escape her shameful past. An isolated new life in the kauri forests of New Zealand’s Far North offers the chance of a respectable future for her and her five-year-old daughter, Hannah. To her dismay, Lydia discovers that one of her few neighbou ...Show more
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