Blogs in January 2018

WWOOFing North and South 12th January 2018

WWOOFing North and South describes the author’s time as a WWOOFer in New Zealand and Scotland. She travels widely encountering an eclectic mix of people and animals. She gets butted by a billy goat, chased by geese, mobbed by...

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All Day at the Movies 1st January 2018

In 1952, war widow Irene takes her young daughter to start a new life in New Zealand’s tobacco fields. But tragedy forces her into the arms of Jock, whose actions will haunt the lives of the couple’s future children–though...

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Songs from the Violet Cafe 24th October 2017

New Zealand, 1943. Violet Trench crosses Lake Rotorua with a small boy, Wing Lee, but rows back alone. Twenty years later, the same body of water is the scene of an event that will have lasting repercussions for Violet...

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The Calgary Chessman 22nd August 2017

Cas Longmore lives on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, a long way away from her home in New Zealand. She finds a mysterious object hidden in the sand at Calgary Bay and her search to find out more...

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The Bone People 11th August 2017

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown...

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