Adult imprint: 1806 books
by Owen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This entertaining and insightful novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but...
by Owen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
**Shortlisted for the NZ Post Book Awards, these 25 stories are at once arresting, moving, funny and full of insight into the human condition.**Being a celebrity impersonator, says Aussie Elton John, is like living your life as a moon. 'We give up our identity and become just a reflection of another...
by Owen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
**What happens when an ordinary man becomes a messiah? A witty, prescient and eloquent satire by one of New Zealand's finest writers.**Far into the twenty-first century, Albous Slaven's life is spectacularly and irrevocably altered after he hangs for an instant from a power line. While recuperating,...
Danny Boy
The Legend Of The Beloved Irish Ballad
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Bestselling Irish-American author Malachy McCourt takes a fascinating historical look at the traditional folk song, Danny Boy, discovering its origin, lyricist, and the moving heritage that has grown around it.
Everyone can hum this haunting Irish ballad that inevitably brings a tear to the...
Daily Scoldings
A Bracing Tonic of Criticism, Rebuke, and Punitive Inspiration for Better Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Sick of the mindless pablum of inspiration” offered by page-a-day devotionals? Tired of the relentless celebration of positive thinking? Perhaps it's time for something with a bit more bite to it. Daily Scoldings are daily doses of bitter truth that will wake anyone out of their narcissism, delusions...
Ramshackle Glam
The New Mom's Haphazard Guide to (Almost) Having It All
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ramshackle Glam creator Jordan Reid was a little nervous about becoming a mother. In my experience,” she writes, you know what happens when you hold babies? They cry. And it immediately becomes clear to all present that you have terrible parental instincts and should never be allowed to come...
The Great American Ale Trail (Revised Edition)
The Craft Beer Lover's Guide to the Best Watering Holes in the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The Great American Ale Trail is your definitive, state-by-state guide to the best places to drink craft beer.
First published in 2011, The Great American Ale Trail is the most discriminating and thorough guide to the best watering holes in the nation. This newly revised edition features fully...
Surviving Breast Cancer
Inspirational Stories From the Front
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
**Eleven heartfelt and encouraging stories recounting the experiences women have gone through on their road back to good health.**A diagnosis of breast cancer is a devastating thing, and each year thousands of women receive this terrible news. The outlook is not necessarily bleak, but it is a difficult...
This Road Sucks
And Other Street Signs We Really Need
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Put On Your Hazards and Read This
The very safety of our drivers is at stake. Our countries' drivers have grown restless behind the wheel-they've mastered texting, one knee driving, and can eat enormous burritos while navigating a dicey pass on a two-lane highway. Our current system of street...
Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934)
When Sin Ruled the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies.
Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none other: you will...
by Craig Cliff
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
**An award-winning short story from the 2011 Commonwealth Prize Best First Book.**It's not every day you receive an email at work from someone claiming to be 'the' Charles Darwin. But when David Leon emails back, little does he suspect that before long he would be heading to Ecuador, or indeed that...
Strong Is the New Sexy
My Kickass Story on Getting My Formula for Fierce
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A number of years ago, most people thought Nicole Snooki” Polizzi was destined for either rehab or prison. When she rose to stardom on the MTV breakout series, Jersey Shore, she was twenty pounds overweight from her steady diet of nachos and alcohol. Today, not only is she a mother of two, but...
Doodle Diary of a New Mom
An Illustrated Journey Through One Mommy's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
When Lucy Scott gave birth to her adorable daughter Lois, nothing prepared her for the momentous task of caring for this new little person. Compelled to preserve the memories of her first year, Lucy started drawing, and so emerged Doodle Diary of a New Mom. From baby's first trip to the pediatrician...
The Hungry Heart
Journeys With William Colenso
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation."I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick,...