Books by Waikato Writers.
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Jillene Byder - Red Snow
Red Snow is a social and political history of spy thriller fiction.
Available from [email protected], or Poppies (Hamilton) and Browsers Bookshops.
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Red Snow is a social and political history of spy thriller fiction.
Available from [email protected], or Poppies (Hamilton) and Browsers Bookshops.
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Christina O'Reilly - Into the Void
DSS 'Archie' Baldrick and DC Ben Travers investigate the bewildering case of a missing man, banker Richard Harper, whose complicated private life leads to consequences of violence, obsession and murder. Into the Void was longlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize in 2019 and in 2020 was a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for Best First Novel.
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DSS 'Archie' Baldrick and DC Ben Travers investigate the bewildering case of a missing man, banker Richard Harper, whose complicated private life leads to consequences of violence, obsession and murder. Into the Void was longlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize in 2019 and in 2020 was a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for Best First Novel.
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Christina O' Reilly - Retribution
In the second book in the 'Archie' series of novels, Archie and Travers investigate the murder of a mysterious young woman on a deserted beach. Who was Lucy Martin and what was she hiding?
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In the second book in the 'Archie' series of novels, Archie and Travers investigate the murder of a mysterious young woman on a deserted beach. Who was Lucy Martin and what was she hiding?
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Peter Dornauf - Day of Grass
Day of Grass is an adult novel set in the Waikato and involves a coming of age narrative that follows the maturing of a young farm boy as he leaves behind the comforting world of nature and religious belief and enters the urban world of university life, the consequences of which prove not only challenging but traumatic.
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Day of Grass is an adult novel set in the Waikato and involves a coming of age narrative that follows the maturing of a young farm boy as he leaves behind the comforting world of nature and religious belief and enters the urban world of university life, the consequences of which prove not only challenging but traumatic.
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Nicky Webber - No Ordinary Man
Returned WWII New Zealand soldier, Sargent Mick Thompson, has a secret double-life which comforts him from harsh reality. Trouble is, Mick falls in love with Glenda, his neighbor’s wife. It gets worse. She is pregnant. In 1947 while the post-war world still licks its wounds, and where money and religion have a tight grip on social convention, Mick and his alter-ego, Moira, find themselves in the crosshairs, fighting for survival, when all they want is to love and let live.
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Returned WWII New Zealand soldier, Sargent Mick Thompson, has a secret double-life which comforts him from harsh reality. Trouble is, Mick falls in love with Glenda, his neighbor’s wife. It gets worse. She is pregnant. In 1947 while the post-war world still licks its wounds, and where money and religion have a tight grip on social convention, Mick and his alter-ego, Moira, find themselves in the crosshairs, fighting for survival, when all they want is to love and let live.
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Jeff Taylor - Hamilton Lake - City Playground
Find out how this much-loved New-Zealand lake was formed thousands of years ago, how pre-European Maori harvested the lake, the fish, bird and plant life, and a photo gallery of how Hamiltonians have enjoyed the lake over the last 150 years.
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Find out how this much-loved New-Zealand lake was formed thousands of years ago, how pre-European Maori harvested the lake, the fish, bird and plant life, and a photo gallery of how Hamiltonians have enjoyed the lake over the last 150 years.
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Lee Kimber - Letter to a Weta
Artist - Matt Kambic.
I've read all my books,
I've played all my games,
I've dressed all my dolls,
and undressed them again....
What do you do when you are bored, bored, bored?
You write a letter to a Weta of course, and guess what? The Weta writes back!
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