Random House New Zealand: 495 books

**A clear and concise explanation of the Treaty of Waitangi for everyday readers.**This book covers the history of the Treaty - from the events leading up to the signing, the signing and the Maori and English versions - and it also looks at the wider issues, both then and now, including such current...

**An intriguing novel about the choices we make, about finding out who we really are and about living life to the fullest.**Tam Cochrane is a sickly lad, confined to his bed in Glasgow in the 1880s. His only experience of adventure and the outside world is through books - that is until his father...

**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...

From growing up in a wooden caravan to building his own state-of-the-art racetrack, this is the remarkable story of Targa champion, Hampton Downs and Highlands Motorsport Park owner Tony Quinn. On a clear and frosty morning in 2012, in the small, Central Otago town of Cromwell, Tony Quinn and his...

**A major biography of Ken Douglas, the most powerful union leader in modern New Zealand history.**Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he...

**The lively memoir of one of New Zealand's wittiest art, urbanism and social commentators.**Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention when his television series and accompanying book The Big Picture seized the imagination of New Zealanders. The high-rating...

**Excellent advice for parenting teenagers from a highly experienced psychologist and a counsellor.**Many parents feel anxious about coping with teenagers - it's not surprising given all the horror stories you hear. Other parents warn us of previously docile and compliant children who appear to have...

This tender and amusing novel is set in New Zealand in the nineties, with the Springbok Tour still a recent memory, and as the country debates whether to adopt MMP. Letter-writing is about to give way to email, but elderly Grace will resist the trend. Through letters and stories, we learn of her friendships,...

**An engaging woman-against-the-odds story about an entrepreneurial South Island sheep farmer.**When Beverley Forrester's beloved husband Jim died unexpectedly, not only did she have to deal with her grief, but she suddenly had a farm to run too. Although she had grown up in a farming family, she...

The hard-hitting and moving expose of a teenager whose abuse by police began when she was a 13-year-old and continued throughout her teens. What's the real story behind Louise Nicholas' claims of gang rape by policemen?What allowed her to bring her darkest and most harrowing secrets into the harsh...

Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism and, with plans to travel overseas, chucks in his job. But first he goes south...

**A New Zealander's hilarious culinary romance with France, interspersed with recipes.**A New Zealand nurse opening a restaurant in Paris? Surely that would be sheer fantasy? But luck and blind determination led Peta Mathias to fulfil her long-held ambition - rising from dishwasher to French chef...

Fascinating answers to quirky questions about languageWhy is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or...

**How a small boy with a stammer ended up on the stage, becoming one of New Zealand's best loved comedians.**In The Years Before My Death, renowned and much loved actor-director and comedy show writer David McPhail recounts his early life and what led him to pioneer the satirical TV programmes (including...