Penguin Random House New Zealand: 456 books

**Witty and ironic, this novel follows an intriguing return to the family home on the lonely margins of the sea.**Stephanie was always the outsider - never allowed to play with the china dolls on the staircase landing, always on the edge of family events, shut out of the important secrets. Now, after...

Moving, acutely observed and psychologically deep, this fine novel captures and illuminates past and contemporary relationships. Colin should have the house to himself this Christmas. His flatmates are away and so is his girlfriend, who has gone on holiday without admitting the chill in their relationship....

A noir novel, creepy and compellingAt 11.06 pm, on 6 September 2001, eighteen year old Shane stands near the house of his girlfriend's father, staring at the hilt of a sword stabbed into the ground. The next morning, his best friend Will is sitting in a police station, trying to explain the tangled...

**YA thriller about a teen discovering the truth of his grandfather's terrible past as a World War Two fighter pilot.**When 17-year-old Matt dreams that he is a World War Two pilot in a dogfight against the Germans, something strange happens. Was it a dream? Because later that morning, the family...

Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards, Young Adult Fiction category, this powerful post-apocalyptic drama is a sequel to the award-winning novel The Sea-wreck Stranger. 'No matter how much you might want to leave a place, if it's where you were raised it holds a piece of you it doesn't...

Juno of Taris faces more dangers in the second in the award-winning science fiction / fantasy young adult novel series. Juno and the Taris inhabitants must leave their dying island. The young people look forward to a wider life Outside, but Outside too has its problems. It is two-year-old Hera, with...

The exciting third and final book in the Juno series of gripping, sci-fi / fantasy YA novels. Heart of Danger is a rollicking good read that veers between quite terrifying situations and Juno's discoveries about love and the powers of her own mind. Juno and her family arrive at their new home, but...

**Create your ideal life in 12 weeks by making positive changes to your health, fitness, relationships, career, finances and leisure.**Are you living the life you want? Do you want to change for the better? Or do you simply want more energy? Leading executive coach, Andrea Molloy, helps you create...

**An intriguing novel revolving around the varied reactions to a new, catastrophic disease.**With the advent of the new millennium comes a new disease - Harlequin Rex - and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in this intriguing novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and...

A mother and daughter arrive at Blackpeak Vineyard in search of a new life and new love in this sizzling romance. Longing for a new life in the country, former television executive Lizzie Harrington settles on the vineyard south of Blackpeak Station, bringing with her some glamorous guests - none...

**A vivid novel about ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love.**Billy is a young, impressionable dreamer. In 1907, he strikes off on his own, keen to prove himself an able worker on the new railroad. It's being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join...

**A vivid romance novel set in stunning rural Banks Peninsula.**Lilyfields cottage has been lying empty since its previous occupant, Rosa, got married. It's just the haven Orla Nolan is looking for. She needs to recuperate after an accident has dashed her dreams of acting in a movie that's being filmed...

**A prize-winning collection of vivid, accessible stories.**These fresh, contemporary stories can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier works: from Maori myth and fairy tale to masterpieces by writers...

**A lively, moving novel that vividly recreates the 1880s: the harsh lives; the attitudes to madness and to drunkenness; and the strength of friendship and love.**After an accident at four years old, Libby Budd has difficulty speaking. Her devoted father refuses to see there's a problem - even when...