Rhnz Adult Ebooks imprint: 339 books

by Coral Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

**Set in a pivotal moment in our history, this love story is about how we once were, or might have been.**A tarot-reading Frenchwoman and a paua-shell memorial to a dead soldier play an important role in this gritty love story. Set in a central North Island town in New Zealand during the 1930s Depression,...
by Alan Duff
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

**The third volume in the hard-hitting, best-selling Once Were Warriors trilogy.**The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake, and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him. Polly, as beautiful as her sister Grace, who...
by Fiona Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

**A fabulous multi-levelled novel, shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards.**Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art history conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a packet of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her...
by Lisa Harper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013

The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined young woman alone, who overcame the isolation of her family farm to build a flourishing business. When Lisa Harper returned to her family's farm at the head of remote Mahau Sound, in the Marlborough Sounds, after years overseas working as a scientist,...
by Stephanie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

**A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer.**These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson's fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sharp wit, with characters as diverse as a woman arranging a second wife for her husband, a criminal returning to the care of his mother, and a widow who hears an octopus call her name.
by Coral Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

**A novel about risk and freedom, desire and love in pioneering New Zealand.**Tomatoes were little known in New Zealand in the late nineteenth century, but those who had encountered the fruit often called it the 'love apple' and considered it a symbol of love and lust. Anglo-Irish gentleman photographer...
by Charlotte Grimshaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015

**The latest enthralling novel from the author of *The Night Book and Soon.*Eloise Hay lives on the Starlight Peninsula. Every weekday she travels into the city to work at Q TV Studio, assisting with the production of a current affairs show. One night she receives a phone call that will change her...
by Phyllis Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

A touching coming-of-age story that shows the impact of the second world war on New Zealand families Brother Harry is home from fighting in Egypt - just for a while. He's a breath of fresh air in the midst of food rationing and twice-a-day milking. He teaches 13-year-old Helen to drive, and to fire...
by Ted Dawe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Meet Jazz and Roxy and their mates, kids living on the edge, in a gritty YA novel by the author of the New Zealand Post Award-winning ***Thunder Road.***In K Road we're introduced to a scattering of marginalised, demi-underworld characters whose lives connect and collide in a gripping narrative. K...

A Long Road to Progress

Dispatches from a Kiwi Commander in Afghanistan

by Richard Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010

Fascinating dispatches from a Kiwi Commander in Afghanistan. As Commander of the New Zealand troops in the Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Hall gained a unique insight into the lives of Kiwi soldiers serving in a harsh climate amid daily threats, as well as into the lives of the locals...
by Jenny Pattrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Heart-warming and compulsive reading, this is an entertaining, lively and moving novel from one of New Zealand's favourite authors.*'Donny Mac was released at Eastertime, about a month before Pansy Holloway, also known as Nightshade, disappeared for good.'*After a short stint in prison on trumped-up...
by Peta Mathias
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change.*'I've escaped more houses than I've said Hail Marys.'*Peta Mathias has been making major moves since leaving home to train as a nurse, before living in Canada, London and later...
by Peta Mathias
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Winner of Best Literary Food Writing (in English) category at the World Cookbook Fair, this is a lively journey discovering Ireland's food, people and music. If Peta hadn't known of her Irish ancestry, her love of potatoes would have betrayed it. Peta always connects with a place through its food,...

Fleur

The Life & Times Of Pioneering Restaurateur Fleur Sullivan

by Fleur Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

**The memoir of the characterful restaurateur and national treasure.**Fleur Sullivan is a South Island legend, the culinary maven responsible for not one but two iconic local restaurants - Olivers in Clyde and the eponymous Fleurs Place in Moeraki. Now, at the age of 72, she's running a third, The...
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