Blogs in February 2021

The Denniston Rose 5th February 2021

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal – mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand’s West Coast, is a place that makes or...

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Landings 1st February 2021

The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse scatterings of settlements along its twisting length. The people...

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