Random House New Zealand: 495 books
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...
by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Afternoon tea has never been so much fun! A bittersweet novel about life, living and the importance of cupcakes.Rotten things happen in threes in Florence�s family, so when she�s fired by her best friend and left by her husband in the space of a single afternoon, she knows there is yet more trouble...
by Charlotte Grimshaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A prize-winning and innovative collection of connected short stories."You could look back after a long time and ask, who wanted what from whom?" A man confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary uncovers her boss's secret shame....
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...
No. 8 Re-wired: 202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World
202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. No. 8 Re-wired is a comprehensive, colourful treasury of New Zealand inventions - jam-packed with the stories behind 202 home-grown creations and the crafty people who dreamt them up.�From well-known innovations (human flight,...
No.8 Re-charged
202 World-changing Innovations from New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Take notice, world, New Zealand is undergoing a re-charge. The 'No. 8 wire' thinking we have been so proud of is being expanded and improved. No. 8 Re-charged tells a compelling and accessible story of modern New Zealand and its world-beating products and ideas. From drone technology to electric farm...
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...
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,...
Everlasting Feast
A Treasury of Recipes and Culinary Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Favourite recipes and stories of a life in food come together in a beautiful cookbook by one of New Zealand's best-known food writersLauraine Jacobs is a New Zealand food legend. Whether it's through her hundreds of recipes written over the years for Cuisine magazine, her weekly column in the Listener...