Rhnz Adult Ebooks imprint: 339 books

This novel is a compelling, black comedy of manners and relationships. When the parcel first reaches Rosalind's mail box she is unable to take it out or even to contemplate opening it. It throws her into a series of painful recollections and comic-tragic events, which gradually reveal the nature...

**A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth.**Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father is in his tenth year of dying of cancer, while his colleagues...

**An astute short story that challenges the formulaic and inhumane murder mysteries of television.**A body is found floating in the bottom of a swimming pool. The police have no leads. Might the nosy cleaner have a theory about this strange case? After all, she is well used to reading the mess that...

World-renowned dog behaviourist and psychologist Mark Vette (of Driving Dogs and Flying Dogs fame) shows you how to transform your dog and create a harmonious life-long bond. This book looks at how the dog evolved from the wolf, and the ancient co-evolved bond that exists between humans and dogs,...

**Charismatic dog trainer Doggy Dan shares his insights and tips into how working with dogs has helped him bring up his children.**Learn how to lead the way in your family without using fear or aggression. Find out how to be clear and calm, firm and yet fair in all your dealings with others. Learn...

**The ultimate guide to dating - how to hitch, switch or ditch.**This is the definitive guide. From her uncensored and hilarious dating mishaps to unconventional wisdom you won't have heard before, Sam Pease will help you work out whether he's a sleeper, a creeper or a keeper.Sam Pease is the Dating...

Rich and subtle, this is a compelling novel from one of New Zealand's finest writers. It is a moving study of love and disappointment, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power and significance of landscape in our lives. A graveyard is all that's left of the remote Central...

Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism and, with plans to travel overseas, chucks in his job. But first he goes south...

**An engrossing collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers.**Fiona Kidman first wrote short stories in the 1960s and has continued to publish them in books, magazines and journals ever since. Her style has evolved as she has explored different forms over the years,...

A former Domincan nun's story of dedication to her vocation and escape.'You have made the most important decision of your life and the greatest sacrifice a human being can make. Well done Judith.' In 1955, at seventeen years of age, Judith Graham entered the Dominican Order and began her life as Sister...

**'Chick lit meets feminism' in this first humorous novel in the Penny Rushmore trilogy about being stuck in the Sandwich Generation.**Penny Rushmore is a typical baby boomer, sandwiched between her warring teenagers and an increasingly dotty mother, whilst running her own business and worrying about...

Prize-winning writer Sarah Laing has written a superb collection of stories that are beautifully written, vividly rendered and which stimulate and surprise.'Imagine that you're a statistic,' says one of the characters in these quirky, haunting stories of people whose inner lives let them escape the...

**Intricately plotted, this novel explores different kinds of fictions, infidelity and dangerous freedoms.**Anna Devine, a young New Zealand painter living in London, has two chance encounters that set her on a search for answers. Can she really 'see' her new city properly? Can she reconcile family...

**An absorbing novel set in 1870s New Zealand about an impossible love between a half-Chinese woman and a young immigrant.**Henry arrives in the South Island of New Zealand in search of his sister, who is now living in Charleston, married to a local doctor. It is there that he comes across Mai, who...