Non-fiction: Wahine Toa, Ned & Katina - a True Love Story. Through an analysis of the 1986 novel Potiki by Mori writer Patricia Grace, Rask Knudsen looks in other directions than those catalogued by postcolonial. Every page pays homage to the wayi which they live as a community and rituals that centre their ancestors and themselves. Books for children: The Kuia and the Spider/Te Kuia me te Pungawerewere, Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street/Te Tuna Watakirihi me Nga Tamariki o te Tiriti o Toa, The Trolley, Areta and the Kahawai, Maraea and the Albatrosses. Potiki drips with Mori sentiment and cultural practices. Short story collections: Waiariki, The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories, Electric City and Other Stories, Selected Stories, Collected Stories, The Sky People, Small Holes in the Silence. Previous novels by Patricia Grace: Mutuwhenua - The Moon Sleeps, Potiki, Cousins, Baby No-eyes, Dogside Story, Tu. Patricia was born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay. Her children's story The Kuia and the Spider won Children's Picture Book of the Year. We are the largest supplier of books and eBooks to Public Libraries and Schools in Australasia. She won the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Wheelers provides an entire world of books in a few clicks. She has published six novels and seven short story collections, as well as a number of books for children and non-fiction. Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers.
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