Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books

**From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language.**Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and...

**Based on real events in Germany, this vividly told and deeply moving novel tells of one woman's love for a fellow artist, her struggle to survive the war and her desperation to keep alive the spirit of creativity.**Most novels about the Nazi period portray Germans as the perpetrators of war and...

**A fascinating novel about small-town communities, which is also a love story and a whodunit.**Ken McUrran runs a service station in a small town. He's an ordinary kiwi bloke who wants an ordinary kiwi life. Trouble is, a young Austrian hitch-hiker disappears. Ken's niece, Gith, has seen which car...

**Eleven heartfelt and encouraging stories recounting the experiences women have gone through on their road back to good health.**A diagnosis of breast cancer is a devastating thing, and each year thousands of women receive this terrible news. The outlook is not necessarily bleak, but it is a difficult...

**Everything you need to know about reaching your highest potential at work.**This book is based on the author's five years' work as a coach with personal and leading corporate clients and examines career, finances, health, relationships and total well-being. Specifically targeted at those wanting...

**A world full of signs, but can you trust what they say? A clever and touching short story about fathers and sons and reading what we signify to each other.**Guilt pushes Rob into accompanying his elderly father on a long road trip. But when a phone call disrupts their journey, who is looking after whom?

How to make successful documentary films, a resource book for novice and experienced filmmakers Caudia Babirat and Lloyd Spencer Davis pool their considerable experience to provide thisclearly written, practical how-to manual on running a successful business in documentary filmmaking. This comprehensive,...

**How to help your children make healthy food choices throughout their lives.**The choices we make influence our children in ways we are not always aware of. This book helps readers recognise their hidden assumptions about food, and the ways we can offer food options to children that help them make...

**Another entertaining novel from this internationally published writer, about tangled relationships, misunderstandings and truculent toddlers.**When Charlotte Fforbes inadvertently falls in love with her boss, her usually cool self-control is tested to its limit. Thus far, Charlotte has carefully...

**A moving short story about a strong bond - both comradely and erotic - formed between soldiers during World War II.**This is a story rarely told, of a certain kind of relationship often forged during wartime. Of love between men, of unexpected passion. Beautifully written by an award-winning writer,...

A survival guide to grief and loss We experience grief and loss for many reasons: death, separation, divorce, redundancy, illness and through many other major life changes. Pam Heaney's thorough and perceptive exploration of grief is a book that will truly help us help ourselves and others.Sensible,...

**An achingly insightful coming-of-age novel about discovering sexuality and selfhood.**Hungry Creek runs out over mudflats and curves around to a tidal beach. Hungry Creek is where everything is put that nobody wants: a dump, a zoo, a loony bin. It is also a magical place.*'I'm two bits of mismatched...

A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation. Where are we? How did we get here? Where do we go now? From nineteenth-century attempts to create Utopias to America's rustbelt, from Darwin's study of worms to China's phantom cities,...

Poignant, lyrical and bitter-sweet, this novella is about coming to terms with your own sexuality and finding love.'I am still not sure what homo means, apart from being in Truth and having to commit suicide in the bath . . .'Lemmy and Jamie. Jamie and Lenny. Two friends. Together. At a time of need.