Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books
The Random Reader
New Zealand Children's Stories Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
Wonderful selection of funny and touching stories written by top New Zealand authors, such as Margaret Mahy, Joy Cowley, Kate de Goldi, David Hill and many other stars of children's literature. It's perfect for children from 5 to 105, with its focus on fun, good writing, cheekiness and word play....
by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
**Especially chosen for 6 year olds, this is a light and fun collection of excellent children's stories.**These 25 stories are written by some of New Zealand's leading writers for children such as Margaret Mahy, David Hill, Patricia Grace and Barbara Else, as well as other seasoned and up-and-coming...
by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Chosen with 7 year olds in minds, this is an energetic collection of wonderful children's stories. These 25 stories are written by some of New Zealand's leading writers for children such as Kate de Goldi, Barbara Else, Sandy McKay and Jane Buxton, as well as other seasoned and up-and-coming writers....
by Fiona Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Fiona Farrell's first novel - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit....
The Random Reader
New Zealand Short Stories Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
From fifteen of New Zealand's finest short-fiction practitioners come stories to delight, amuse and move. These stories have been gathered from a range of titles, published in recent years by Vintage New Zealand and commended by readers and reviewers alike.Owen Marshall is regularly described as New...
by Geoff Chapple
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
**New Zealand's many distinctive landforms are packed into a small space.**Geoff Chapple, author of Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail, set out on a year-long journey to find out why, and to seek out the shifting forces that shape them. For company, he chose to walk with geologists and the artisans...
Loves Me Not
How to Keep Relationships Safe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
An essential guide for keeping relationships safe. In 2008, the horrific murder of Sophie Elliott by her former boyfriend and university lecturer, Clayton Weatherston, shocked New Zealand. During the police investigation it became clear Sophie's murderer was a typical abuser who had a track record...
No. 8 Re-wired: 202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World
202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. No. 8 Re-wired is a comprehensive, colourful treasury of New Zealand inventions - jam-packed with the stories behind 202 home-grown creations and the crafty people who dreamt them up.�From well-known innovations (human flight,...
No.8 Re-charged
202 World-changing Innovations from New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Take notice, world, New Zealand is undergoing a re-charge. The 'No. 8 wire' thinking we have been so proud of is being expanded and improved. No. 8 Re-charged tells a compelling and accessible story of modern New Zealand and its world-beating products and ideas. From drone technology to electric farm...
New Zealand Unleashed
The Country, Its Future and the People Who Will Get It There
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A futurist's vision for a strong, economically successful and positive New ZealandThe future is coming. The question is: are we ready? New Zealand Unleashed is a look at what sort of society New Zealand will need to be to best tackle an unpredictable future. It is about how New Zealand can thrive...
by Jane Mander
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
**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...
Purakau
Maori Myths Retold by Maori Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of purakau - Maori myths - by contemporary Maori writers. Ka mua, ka muri . . . Ancient Maori creation myths, portrayals of larger-than-life heroes and tales of engrossing magical beings have endured through the ages. Some hail back to Hawaiki, some are...
New Zealand Girl: Charlotte and the Golden Promise
Charlotte and the Golden Promise
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
'I'm sure it'll be much more fun at the goldfields'. Dunedin, 1865 Charlotte loves to play marbles with her best friend Harry and read about adventures on the high seas. But Charlotte will have to leave school soon and help her mother with the house and the younger children. Charlotte can't imagine...
by Jeff Hopkins-Weise
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking...