Rhnz Adult Ebooks imprint: 339 books

**An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond.**Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own....

**Mysterious and evocative, tantalising and erotic, this unique novel explores the qualities of love and obsession.**Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe and Ulrike von Levetzow, Chopin and Marie Wodzinska,...

**A poignant and contentious novel by a rising star of New Zealand literature.**Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson's body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up. What happens, though, when the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, unexpectedly turns up in the days before...

Craig Marriner is New Zealand's response to Irivine Welsh and Quentin Tarantino. A novel, which won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, to make you cringe and shudder, then wet yourself laughing. Its raw and scathing prose breaks new ground against the backdrop of a world-view as chilling as the...

**An enthralling novel of individual bravery versus silent, collective complicity, set in a vividly drawn farming community in 1970s New Zealand.***The Baxters do not know their place.*On the first of June every year, sharemilkers load their trucks with their families, pets and possessions and crawl...

**A prize-winning collection of vivid, accessible stories.**These fresh, contemporary stories can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier works: from Maori myth and fairy tale to masterpieces by writers...

**A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love.**It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed...

**First published in 1920, this is the most celebrated of Jane Mander's six novels and is now regarded as a New Zealand classic.**Alice Roland, together with her children, boxes, mattresses and piano, is punted up river to the 'appalling isolation' of their new home, 'a small house against a splendid...

**The Warrior Queen is a subversive, funny novel about modern middle�-class marriage.**Kate Wildburn is in trouble. She is an extrovert, a lateral thinker and a talented pianist. She is also a good wife and mother, and an attractive woman who enjoys being a woman. Richard, her surgeon husband, is...

This poignant, funny novel explores the intricate influences of memory and experience, invention and deception.'Delia's body lay flat as a piece of paper, blank, as if everything on it had scurried off over the side.' Delia Whittborne finds herself in a hospital bed but can't recall how she got there,...

**A touching, tender and witty novel about men and women and family life.**Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three children to manage, a distraught friend - as well as possums in the laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband, Russell - but there's an importunate older...

Forty-eight hours in the lives of characters headed for a showdown, grippingly told by an award-winning novelist. It�s election day in contemporary New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist�s political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community....

This vivid, moving and provocative novel presents a story of a whole society caught up in national turmoil. Told through the experiences of one family, the Shubins, and their city of Leningrad, their story of love and heartbreak is universal. Starting with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on...

In this wryly funny novel, Adam tries to juggle midlife, an ex-wife, a new partner and a careering career as he contemplates life's promises and pitfalls. Adam is fortyish, coasting along and relatively content, while his glamorous partner, Louise, takes centre stage. But half a lifetime ago his aspirations...