Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books

**An end to wakeful nights with expert advice on how to get to sleep, sleep well, and stay asleep.**We all recognise the importance of a good night's sleep on a regular basis, but many people suffer from a sleeping disorder of some kind. Help is at hand in this practical book which provides straightforward...

**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...

**Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this prize-winning novel takes a tilt at a wide range of contemporary matters.**What happened that connects a diverse group of characters, along with an ex-All Black and an elephant? The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly...

**This prize-winning collection of short stories playfully questions what 'real life' is and, more importantly, where it can be found.***Philip is a New Zealander, born and raised; the trouble is that no one will believe him. He travels widely, though his brother Dan has no intention of going anywhere...

**A beautiful collection of stories by a pre-eminent writer, shortlisted for major awards.**Fiona Kidman has a genius for peeling back the lives of ordinary people to reveal their hidden passions and complexities. In this brilliant new collection, she explores - with her customary subtlety and insight...

A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally....

**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...

The first novel from one of New Zealand's prize-winning, emerging writersClassical is karaoke - just playing covers of dead people's music - or so Wellingtonian Rebecca concluded at her London conservatorium. She's sabotaged her scholarship there, but wants to keep playing the cello, like her grandmother,...

An internationally acclaimed novel, the Kirkus Reviews wrote, 'Shrewdly balanced between earthy tenderness and the dreadful trauma of disillusionment: a grave yet limber narrative-and a very welcome import.' In a strange old building referred to as Paddy's Puzzle, Clara Bentley endures the fears of...

Award-winning book looking at what the Treaty of Waitangi means for Pakeha. Written by businessman and public figure Patrick Snedden, this important book won Montana Best First Book of Non-fiction 2006.What does the Treaty mean for Pakeha today and into the future? Patrick Snedden discusses a range...

The extraordinary rise and and tragic fall of South Canterbury Finance's Allan Hubbard. Accountant, investor and financier Allan Hubbard was very much loved by thousands of South Islanders, and when his finance company South Canterbury Finance went into receivership, taking the savings of thousands...

**The lively, insider story of the rise and rise of New Zealand's most successful logistics company.**This is the story of a company built on the belief that with passion anything is possible. As they say at Mainfreight, 'Go anywhere as long as it is forward'.Mainfreight was founded in 1977 by the...

**The expert guide to biodynamic farming and gardening.**In this revised and updated edition of Grasp the Nettle Peter Proctor tells the reader how to apply biodynamic methods of farming and gardening to a wide range of conditions in New Zealand and in other countries. The book provides practical...