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The Lost Tohunga
By (Author) David Hair
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
2nd June 2011
New Zealand
Young Adult
Fiction
823.3
Paperback
370
Width 130mm, Height 200mm, Spine 20mm
412g
Everyone thinks Ngatoro-i-rangi is long dead, but Matiu Douglas knows he's alive: because he hears the legendary tohunga's voice inside his head! With exams approaching, all Mat really wants to do on his break in Taupo is a bit of study, and catch up with his magical mentor, Aethlyn Jones. But the secret struggle of the warlocks to dominate the hidden land of Aotearoa is spilling into modern New Zealand, and nowhere is safe. The warlocks are seeking Te Iho - The Heart - Puarata's secret powerbase. Find it and they will hold sway in both worlds. When Jones is attacked and a fellow protege kidnapped, Mat finds himself caught up in a deadly no-holds-barred struggle, on a path to Te Iho that is littered with death.
David Hair lives in Wellington. The Bone Tiki was his first novel, and begins a cycle of novels that begin in his native Hawkes Bay and are set in two parallel New Zealands.