Patricia Grace

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1987
  • Latest Book:
    June 2016
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories

  • Waiariki

    Patricia Grace's popular first collection â€" sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races. Also available as an eBook...

  • Electric City and Other Stories

  • Grace

  • Grace: Potiki

    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 a...

  • Cousins

    Mata, Makareta, and Missy, three Maori cousins, once shared a magical childhood moment. They have since followed separate and very different paths, yet their struggles offer insightful glimpses into the lives of contemporary New Zealand women. Patric...

  • 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...

  • Collected Stories

    The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer....

  • Sky People

    In this collection of Patricia Grace's stories we meet the sky people, those under the guardianship of Ranginui and Sky Parent, who are the unwanted, the dispossessed, the wounded in love. But shining through even the darkest human condition is the l...



  • Baby No Eyes

    Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' 'See there, dummy, you're nowhere near dead.' 'Well, I don't believe you. How would you know?' 'Of course I know, I do, I do, I know all about it. ' Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationshi...

  • Dogside Story

    There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a "secret for life, the one to die with." But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, the secret will have to be told.

    "The Sisters" are threatening to ...

  • Mutuwhenua

    This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old w...

  • Potiki

    ''Provocative, compassionate and beautiful'' - Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate

    A moving story of a Maori community''s fight for survival, from one of New Zealand''s most prominent and celebrated authors

    On the remote coast of New Zealand, ...

  • Small Holes in the Silence

    This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary...

  • The Dream Sleepers

    The Dream Sleepers - stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien....

  • Electric City

    These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder ...

  • Haka

    This is the story of the great NgÄti Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'. Te Rauparaha is pursued across the island by his enemies and he fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kÅ«mara pit, ...

  • The Hatchling

    AN EGG CRACKS - WHAT WILL HATCH? What if an absent-minded Wizard left a mysterious blue egg with you and then, POOF, disappeared? Would you know what to do with it? Where would you put it? How would you keep it safe and warm? What do you imagine coul...

  • Chappy

    Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, 21-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love story between his Maor...



  • Defining Dragons

    DISPOSITION BY DEFINITION? The Book of Knowledge holds the answers to every question. Flint the Dragon becomes horrified when he finds out what it says about the nature of dragons. What if, like Flint, others expected you to be someone you are not? W...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia Grace has published 20 books.

Patricia Grace does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Defining Dragons, was published in June 2016.

The first book by Patricia Grace, The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories, was published in July 1987.

No. Patricia Grace does not write books in series.
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