Random House New Zealand: 495 books

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.

**How to be a better leader, confident in your own abilities.**Many people privately fear they are not properly qualified to do the job they have been appointed to - and this fear undermines their capabilities. Learn how to overcome this problem and become a better, stronger leader. Be able to express...

This novel is an acute, darkly comic portrayal of changing times and sexual mores, and the baby boomer generation in the shadow of mid-life crisis. Novelist Max Napier didn't set out to make a mess of his life, but if you choose to entertain romantic notions and a raffish self-image, it's always...

A fascinating novel of hope, love, idealism and human progress, made up of two separate stories, which can be read in isolation and yet reverberate against each other. Sometime in the 1860s, in an isolated valley on Banks Peninsula, Harry Head, "the Hermit of Hickory Bay", experimented unsuccessfully...

**A gripping contemporary romance of love against the odds.**A fresh start in the country is just what Rosa needs. But love has a habit of taking hold in unexpected places.All Rosa wants is to trade her fast-paced city life for a simpler country existence. A run-down cottage in need of some TLC seems...

**A gritty novel of envy and relationships gone awry, by best best-selling writer Alan Duff.**This moving, fast-paced story is set in two contrasting worlds: the rich, horse-breeding milieu of Riley Chadwick and his family, and the hand-to-mouth life on the street of Lu and her mates. What happens...

A collection of six compelling stories linked by a central issue in the lives of the main characters, the defining incident that shapes their futures: the disappearance of a brother; an illegitimate child born to a young girl; a traumatic court case; a woman caught between the deep friendship of two...

How to create high-fashion hair styles at home, by top stylist Richard Kavanagh. Top international hair stylist Richard Kavanagh has put together 24 'recipes' to show clearly and simply how to create a range of fabulous looks in your own home. Step-by-step instructions, with clear photos to make it...

A quirky, much-loved novel about a return home, a past love affair and an elephant."It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India . . . As my voice ascends, thin as the song of a...

From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha. In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly...

**The story of 488 RNZAF Squadron during the fall of Singapore early in 1942.**This gripping history has been written using the diaries, letters, photographs and personal reminiscences of members of 488 Squadron, who were based just outside Singapore City and valiantly kept planes in the air against...