The girls are growing up. Not for them the daily grind of family life. Not yet anyway. After all, it is 1873. Women have more opportunities than ever before, especially in New Zealand in an era of great...

In the sheep country of Canterbury and Otago the native tussock lands had reached the end of their useful life by the 1870s and were sown with European grasses - mainly ryegrass, timothy, cocksfoot and...

Eligible, handsome, witty and charming, Guy Pender is looking for a purpose in life, maybe even a wife to join him in his desire to return to New Zealand, where he hopes to be reunited with his friends...

Someone is looking for James Mackenzie.Our hero is beset by dark thoughts. Worried that his past deception may catch up with him, and depressed by the death of his first true son. Through thick and thin,...

What happens to the trees happens to the boys....Three cedar trees grow beside the Applecross homestead in New Zealand's South Island. Precious trees, carried from Scotland across the world as seedlings....

The year is 1880 and cousins John James Mackenzie and Sam Morling set out to make a new life for themselves in Scotland. Having never ventured beyond the shores of New Zealand, they seek adventure and...