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"Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in New Zealand, 1860, at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's fall from grace sees them struggling to learn the strange etiquette of settler life. When Frances comes...

Two worlds, two women, one story...In 1793, sixteen-year-old Catherine is sentenced to transportation on the Tempest, a convict ship bound for New South Wales. Trapped below deck with scores of women, she endures storms, brutality and loss, while...

Set amongst the spectacular landscape of North Otago, A Year At Awakino encourages us to slow down, live alongside nature and embrace the seasons. As the station cook on Awakino and the mother of three young daughters, Jaz Mathisen knows how...

When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother. That day, he lost his childhood too. Despite or perhaps because of this, he has always felt he needed to take on things that some people would consider impossible. In Believe...