Random House New Zealand: 495 books

**A collection of short pieces on topics dear to Paul Henry's heart - some outrage him, some will outrage you, and others will outrage everybody.**A smattering of sample topics: tipping; political zealots of all persuasion; dog owners; people who just stop at the top of escalators; roadwork signs...

Journeys through the Congo, Sierra Leone and Outback Australia in an inventive memoir by a Commonwealth Poetry Prize-winning ethnographer. The Accidental Anthropologist is a fascinating, impeccably written memoir, or more accurately, a series of fragments. Compelling and absorbing as well as intense...

**A Kiwi cowboy and his stubborn horse (nicknamed 'Goddammityou-sonavabitch') ride through America.**Here's how an 'averagely dumb city-slicker' looking for something to do on his summer holiday saw Dances With Wolves and was seduced by the lure of the West. Together with a small stubborn horse rescued...

Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted...

**S****honagh Koea exhibits her wonderful ability to combine the wry with the poignant in this finely observed short story.**When asked which was her daughter, Alyssum's mother always used to say, 'The ugly one.' Alyssum has since made a life for herself, away from her old home. But her mother is...

A vivid account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the cases of Mackinlay's single malt whisky that he left behind.The incredible tale of Antarctica, malt whisky and an epic journey. Sir Ernest Shackleton's world fame is founded on the Endurance expedition of 1914-17, an attempt to...

A moving, compelling story about society and our reactions to difference, convincingly evoked, beautifully written. A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven feet tall, his skin covered in thick hair which reminds onlookers of an animal's pelt. When he wakes in a city hospital,...

**Comedian Mike King and a skilled psychiatrist take a novel approach to issues of mental health.**Comedian Mike King's Radio Live show The Nutters Club is hugely popular because it is a forum where those with all manner of mental health issues can discuss their stories in a warm and accepting environment....

**Brilliantly tracing the progress of unexpected love and the perils of relationships, this gripping novel is a tour de force.**Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily...

The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them are experienced writers, others have put pen to paper for the first time. If it takes a...

**How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert.**An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves.The...

**The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined woman and an isolated farming life in Golden Bay.**Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought...

**The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and *I am Rebecca.***In this breathtaking follow-up to I am not Esther and I am Rebecca, Fleur Beale revisits the Pilgrim family and its closed religious community, The Children of the Faith.Four years have passed...

Life inside a religious cult becomes too much for 16-year-old Rebecca when she finds out who she is to marry. An award-winning and thrilling sequel to the bestselling classic I am Not Esther, by the acclaimed Fleur Beale.Winner of a Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Award 2015LIANZA Librarian's...