The Tiggie Tompson Show


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Tiggie, the daughter of a high-profile television and print journalist and a top corporate accountant, believes herself talentless and too fat. She dreams of being a famous photographer - photographers make images, their own doesn't matter. When Tiggie scores the role of a lifetime, she realises that this will set her roly-poly image in concrete. Her life has suddenly become very busy and extremely complicated. The powerful and glamorous world of television, a liberal school, an ambitious school production, pre-occupied parents, unlikely friendships and personal struggles culminate in a momentous, bitter-sweet year for Tiggie.




Tiggie Tompson, All at Sea


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The lives of a modern day young actress and the character she is to portray in a 19th century television drama, are about to collide.




The Sparrow


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An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.




The Tiggie Tompson Show


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Tiggie believes she is plain, talentless and fat. To make it worse her mother is a glamorous TV journalist. Despite her wish for a quiet life, Tiggie is about to be discovered.




English in Australia


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Girl, 13


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Compares over forty thirteen-year-old girls from all over the world.




In Lane Three, Alex Archer


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Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.




The Writers Directory


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Night Race to Kawau


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For 40 years, this adrenaline-packed winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book has been gripping Kiwi kids. ‘He’s not there, Mum. He’s fallen overboard.’ What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly develops during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. It is the early 1980s, and technology on the yacht is limited: they are on their own. Will Sam be able to save her family?




Contemporary Authors


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