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The Penguin History of New Zealand

6 best books like The Penguin History of New Zealand (Michael King): The Luminaries, Pounamu Pounamu, In My Father's Den, Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment, The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight, Plumb

The Luminaries
AuthorEleanor Catton
ISBN0316074314
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried...
Pounamu Pounamu
AuthorWiti Ihimaera
ISBN0868636754
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera. First published om 1972, it was immediately endorsed by Maori and Pakeha alike for its original stories that showed how important Maori identity is for all New Zealanders. As Katherine Mansfield did in her first collection In a German Pension (1911), and Janet...
In My Father's Den
AuthorMaurice Gee
ISBN0143019414
When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past - which proves as...
Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment
AuthorNicky Hager
Early in 2014 Nicky Hager was leaked a large number of email and online conversations from Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil blog. Many of these were between Slater and his personal allies on the hard right, revealing an ugly and destructive style of politics. But there were also many communications with...
The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
AuthorJames Redfield
ISBN0446676489
Continuing the exciting adventures of The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight, this new book takes you to the snow-covered Himalayas, in search of the legendary Tibetan utopia of Shambhala. As you follow a child's instructions, are pursued by hostile Chinese agents, and look for a lost friend,...
Plumb
AuthorMaurice Gee
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and...
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