Maurice Shadbolt

The People Before

A New Zealand Maori leads his people leads his people in a revolt against the colonial power.

A Novel

Season of the Jew

Rev. Ed

Among the Cinders

A New Zealand teen goes hiking with his grandfather and has an affair with an older woman.

What does the decorous lawyer Walter Dove, inventively sailing the globe solo, have in common with the lonely spinster Rose Lightfoot, busy with her paintbrush beside the canals of Venice? And what has either to do with the outback Boer War veteran Jim Bird? The answer is love of a luminous kind.

Dove on the Waters

Summer Fires and Winter Country

Dragooned into the British Army in the middle of the nineteenth century and shipped to New Zealand to fight the Maori, unlikely hero Kimball Bent finds himself leading a Maori band that fights the British to a standstill

Monday's Warriors

This is the third book in Shadbolt's "Maori Trilogy", and is set in the 1840s when New Zealand was annexed by Queen Victoria. It combines historical detective work with humour and a host of eccentric characters. The two other books in the trilogy are "Season of the Jew" and "Monday's Warriors".

The House of Strife

Color photographs and text tell New Zealand's story by regions. For each region there is an alphabetically arranged guide to places to see and things to do. Includes twenty maps.

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