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Patricia Grace Books In Order

Novels

  1. Mutuwhenua (1978)
  2. Potiki (1986)
  3. Cousins (1992)
  4. Baby No-eyes (1998)
  5. Dogside Story (2001)
  6. Tu (2004)
  7. Ned and Katina (2009)
  8. Chappy (2015)

Collections

  1. Waiariki (1975)
  2. The Dream Sleepers (1980)
  3. Electric City (1987)
  4. Selected Stories (1991)
  5. The Sky People (1994)
  6. Collected Stories (2001)
  7. Small Holes in the Silence (2006)

Picture Books

  1. Areta & the Kahawai (1994)
  2. Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street (2005)
  3. Maraea and the Albatrosses (2008)
  4. Haka (2015)

Non fiction

  1. Wahine Toa (1984)
  2. Earth, Sea, Sky (2003)
  3. The Silent Migration (2006)
  4. From the Centre (2021)

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Patricia Grace Books Overview

Potiki

Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by ‘Dollarmen’ property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community’s response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.

Baby No-eyes

Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief. Patricia Grace’s major new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that operate at many levels between generations, where the present is the pivot, the center of the spiral, looking outward to the past and future that define it.

Dogside Story

Set in a rural Maori coastal community, the humour and aroha of the community are powerful life preserving factors. But there is conflict in the whanau. Te Rua is battling for custody of his daughter against his two aunts. But why are they disputing custody and what is really going on?

Earth, Sea, Sky

Patricia and Waiariki Graces lyrical translations and explanations of Maori poetry and traditional wisdom are presented alongside Craig Potton’s evocative natural New Zealand photographs.

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