Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books
Diggers, Hatters & Whores
The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
**The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.**A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leaderAs Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this...
The Cutting Edge
The Story of Kiwi Motorsport Legend Rod Millen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
**One of New Zealand's greatest rally drivers and a hill-climbing superstar tells his inspiring story for the very first time.**Rod Millen was a hero of New Zealand rallying in the 1970s. Having won several championships he quickly established himself as New Zealand's number one driver. But thereafter...
Family Trusts
The Must-Have New Zealand Guide - How to Manage and Protect Your Family Trust
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**Over 100,000 copies sold, and the one book all family trust managers and members should own.**Family trusts are as popular today as ever. A family trust offers you the benefits, use and control of your assets and doesn't penalise you for owning them. Clear and straight-forward, and aimed at the...
Shark Man
One Kiwi Man's Mission to Save Our Most Feared and Misunderstood Predator
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The adventures of a shark scientist and his mission to change our perception of New Zealand's most feared and misunderstood predator. Riley Elliott is a surfer, spear-fisherman and shark scientist from the Waikato, currently writing a PhD at Auckland University. He's also on a mission to share his...
Te Araroa The New Zealand Trail
One Man Walks His Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A travel book of vivid encounters with the New Zealand's people and landscape along its famous long trail. When journalist Geoff Chapple wrote a newspaper article that set out a vision for a 2600-km hiking trail the length of New Zealand, he never imagined that he would become the trail blazer. Over...
Open Season
An Angler's Life In New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A charming collection of fishing stories drawn from over 30 years of persistent pursuit of the elusive trout. Dave Witherow is an angler: an adventurous, risk-taking, articulate, passionate angler. He's spent the best part of his life fishing the rivers of New Zealand. He's also a story teller of...
by Dr. Bruce Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
**A look at eye surgery in New Zealand and its many, often colourful, practitioners.**This book throws new light on eye surgery from our colonial days to the present. Some early surgeons were itinerants who operated in hotel rooms and advertised like snake-oil salesmen. In contrast, others were at...
Chance Is A Fine Thing
50 Years In New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A compelling and thoughtful memoir about a significant figure on New Zealand's literary - and natural - landscape.'The stories that I think worth telling are of how, as a young man, I left home on the other side of the world half a century ago and took the chance to become a New Zealander. More, of...
by Sara Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
A must-read for anyone affected by postnatal depression. Postnatal depression (PND) affects�10 to 20 per cent of new mothers in New Zealand and can persist for months�- even years -�if not detected and treated. Yet many women suffer in silence. In Mothers Cry Too, New Zealand psychiatrist Dr...
The McCashin's Story
How Craft Beer Got Started in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
**The small business success story of New Zealand's first craft beer & the revolution it started.**This is the story of a revolution - a very Kiwi kind of revolution, involving more beer than blood, although there was also plenty of sweat and tears. There was a time, not so very long ago, when...
New Zealand Stories
Mansfield Selections
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
**Ten stories from the 'brilliant' Katherine Mansfield set in New Zealand.**As Vincent O'Sullivan states, those encountering Mansfield's stories for the first time have invariably found they 'were alive, they were witty, they were moving, they covered new ground'. But with about 70 stories to choose...
Legend
From Electric Fences to Global Success: The Sir William Gallagher Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
**The story of New Zealand's most successful exporter and its head, Bill Gallagher, who built on the invention of an electric fence to make the company a world leader in its field.**New Zealanders are always being exhorted to take a clever idea and go global. Easier said than done. But one iconic...
Ecoman
From a Garage in Northland to a Pioneering Global Brand
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
**The story of how Malcolm Rands, an organic gardener and hippy from Northland, built the pioneering global brand ecostore.**Malcolm Rands started ecostore from New Zealand's first permaculture eco-village with his wife Melanie in 1993. They sourced local manufacturers to make a range of organic gardening,...