Book Launch: Kāwai – For such a time as this by Monty Soutar

FREE to attend, please RSVP to manager@mcleodsbooks.co.nz

We are very excited to be hosting this event in conjunction with Rotorua Library and Bateman Books.
Dr. Monty Soutar ONZM (Ngati Porou, Ngati Awa, Ngai Tai ki Tamaki, Ngati Kahungunu) is the author of Nga Tama Toa: The Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945, Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War, and contributed to Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923. Monty has held many esteemed positions in his career and it s an honour to launch his first ever work of fiction. Kāwai is the first in an exciting trilogy of historical novels!

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Maori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of the stories. What follows is the enthralling account of the young man's tipuna, the legendary warrior Kaitanga, after whom his marae's whare puni has been named. Tracing the author's own ancestral line, Kawai: For Such a Time as This reveals a picture of an indigenous Aotearoa in the mid-18th century, through to the first encounters between Maori and Europeans