Jenny Pattrick

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th-century community. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public...

Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick is set in a distant land and tells the tale of new beginnings and the desire to escape from the past. It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes...

A tsunami has devastated a small Kapiti Coast community. The government mandates managed retreat—a decision manipulated by Adrian Stokes, a powerful businessman with an agenda of his own. A resourceful and colourful collection of villagers defy the order to retreat. They persuade reclusive Lorna, blind Toddy and young, traumatised Eru to join them as their properties are key to Stokes's...

A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. Catching the Current is a companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, where the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad Rasmussen finds refuge in the North Island of New Zealand under...

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 breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel — the 1880s — the only way to reach the makeshift collection of...

Landings is a vivid and evocative novel capturing a unique time and place, penned by one of New Zealand's favourite authors. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the Whanganui River serves as a bustling thoroughfare. Paddle steamers carry sightseers through the breathtaking landscape, while the river acts as a highway connecting the sparse settlements along its winding path....