Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books

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Hurricane Tim

The Story Of Sir Tim Wallis

by Neville Peat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

The gripping biography of one of New Zealand's most distinguished farmers, entreprenuers and aviation heroes. When Sir Tim Wallis's Spitfire crashed at Wanaka airfield in 1996, his accident was reported around the world. This lion-hearted Central Otago man, a legendary figure in the aviation, deer...
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by Brian Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**Honest and insightful, this memoir is a revealing picture of our recent past, of sport and poetry, the spirit of New Zealand's south and its distinctive people.**This is the story of a typical Dunedin childhood, surrounded by 'nobies' - an extended family of eccentric grandparents and uncles, cousins...
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Maori Boy

A Memoir of Childhood

by Witi Ihimaera
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

**This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling, award-winning memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer.**Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller - one critic calling him one of our 'finest and most memorable'. Some of his best stories, however, are...
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by Peter Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014

**Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core.**In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name - Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu:...
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Lucky Legs

What I've Learned About Winning and Losing

by Steve Gurney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

**The keys to success in a motivational autobiography by New Zealand's top multisport athlete.**Steve Gurney is an exceptional athlete. He has been in 19 of the epic Coast to Coast races in a row, and he has won nine of them. He has represented New Zealand twice at the World Mountain Bike champs and...
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by Sue McCauley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

**An older woman, a younger boy - a relationship that society still feels awkward about. And she is white and middle-class, he Maori and a street kid.**In this powerful, prize-winning novel of their love, Sue McCauley writes from the heart and from the gut, and from experience. She glosses over nothing,...
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by Carl Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

**Each beautifully told story in this fine collection resonates with a moving depth of emotional understanding.**Having won prizes in major national competitions for four of these stories, had several selected for anthologies of significant New Zealand writing, with numerous broadcast on radio and...
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by Shonagh Koea
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Blackly humorous yet poignant and multi-levelled, finely crafted and thoroughly entertaining, this short-story collection is from a unique writer with a rare and distinctive talent.*'Reading Shonagh Koea's stories . . . is like sampling a box of good, rich chocolates. Read (or eat) too many at once...
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by Thom Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

Edgy and absorbing, this innovative novel brings a fresh approach to New Zealand writing. What happens when grief draws you to your partner's married brother? 28 year-old Djuna is without a foothold. The suicide of her partner has left her derailed and casting about for the joy she fears may be...
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by Kaye Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

**An absorbing novel set in 1870s New Zealand about an impossible love between a half-Chinese woman and a young immigrant.**Henry arrives in the South Island of New Zealand in search of his sister, who is now living in Charleston, married to a local doctor. It is there that he comes across Mai, who...
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by Sandy McKay
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

**A powerful and moving YA story about two brothers, one of whom goes off to fight in World War One.**It's 1917 and Jack enlists. And although 13-year-old Tom is envious of his elder brother, he soon changes his mind as the reality of war becomes more apparent. We follow Jack's story through his letters...
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Snow On the Lindis

My Life At Morven Hills Station

by Bee Dawson, Madge Snow
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015

A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's most well-known high-country stations - once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone...
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High Country Lark

An Invitation To Paradise

by Neville Peat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

**An award-wining writer travels through the New Zealand high country.**An unusual summons from an old, itinerant acquaintance - known as the Lark - piques author Neville Peat's curiosity. The invitation to meet in the mountains around Glenorchy is timely: he's keen to head into the high country to...
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River of Blood

Tales of the Waiatoto

by John Breen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

**Epic adventures, survival and tragedy in New Zealand's own 'Wild West' frontier, the Waiatoto Valley.**Deep into the heart of the Waiatoto Valley on the savage West Coast is New Zealand's own Wild West: a place which may never really be 'won'. Its pioneers, musterers, hunters and pilots of South...
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