Penguin New Zealand: 464 books
by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o'clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them....
by Keith Woodley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This highly illustrated book tells the story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it.� It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in northern New Zealand, a mudflat on the Chinese-North Korean border, or a tundra nesting...
The McCashin's Story
How Craft Beer Got Started in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
**The small business success story of New Zealand's first craft beer & the revolution it started.**This is the story of a revolution - a very Kiwi kind of revolution, involving more beer than blood, although there was also plenty of sweat and tears. There was a time, not so very long ago, when...
New Zealand Stories
Mansfield Selections
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
**Ten stories from the 'brilliant' Katherine Mansfield set in New Zealand.**As Vincent O'Sullivan states, those encountering Mansfield's stories for the first time have invariably found they 'were alive, they were witty, they were moving, they covered new ground'. But with about 70 stories to choose...
Legend
From Electric Fences to Global Success: The Sir William Gallagher Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
**The story of New Zealand's most successful exporter and its head, Bill Gallagher, who built on the invention of an electric fence to make the company a world leader in its field.**New Zealanders are always being exhorted to take a clever idea and go global. Easier said than done. But one iconic...
Ecoman
From a Garage in Northland to a Pioneering Global Brand
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
**The story of how Malcolm Rands, an organic gardener and hippy from Northland, built the pioneering global brand ecostore.**Malcolm Rands started ecostore from New Zealand's first permaculture eco-village with his wife Melanie in 1993. They sourced local manufacturers to make a range of organic gardening,...
The Winemaker
George Fistonich and the Villa Maria Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Biography of New Zealand's most awarded wine-industry leader. Over the last 15 years, the New Zealand industry has increasingly globalised, as international corporates take a dominant role in our wine production. Villa Maria has always fiercely guarded its independence as New Zealand's largest privately-owned...
The Last Everyday Hero
The Bert Sutcliffe Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
**Magical book about Bert Sutcliffe, the magical batsman who put New Zealand cricket on the map.**This book is a tale of two men: one who became the first hero of New Zealand cricket, and one whose lifelong dream was to write his biography. Bert Sutcliffe, a stout-hearted giant of the post-war cricketing...
A Long Road to Progress
Dispatches from a Kiwi Commander in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Fascinating dispatches from a Kiwi Commander in Afghanistan. As Commander of the New Zealand troops in the Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Hall gained a unique insight into the lives of Kiwi soldiers serving in a harsh climate amid daily threats, as well as into the lives of the locals...
Everlasting Feast
A Treasury of Recipes and Culinary Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Favourite recipes and stories of a life in food come together in a beautiful cookbook by one of New Zealand's best-known food writersLauraine Jacobs is a New Zealand food legend. Whether it's through her hundreds of recipes written over the years for Cuisine magazine, her weekly column in the Listener...
Professor Penguin
Discovery and Adventure With Penguins
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
**Meet 'Bill Bryson in Antarctica' in this engaging book by one of the world's authority on penguins.**Part memoir, partly the research of a field biologist, Professor Penguin could be called 'How Penguins Shaped My Life'. Based on journals kept during Davis's years of working with penguins in the...
by Geoff Chapple
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
**New Zealand's many distinctive landforms are packed into a small space.**Geoff Chapple, author of Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail, set out on a year-long journey to find out why, and to seek out the shifting forces that shape them. For company, he chose to walk with geologists and the artisans...
by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Follow the fortunes of two families - their triumphs and disasters, losses and discoveries - in this enthralling novel by a bestselling author. A family boards a ship bound for New Zealand. What will they find there? Tests lie ahead - war, earthquakes, protest marches, brushes with death. And so do...
by Jon Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
More and more Kiwis are keen to take up cycling, but don't know how to start. Popular media personality Jon Bridges wants to take biking to the masses - and have a good dose of fun along the way. Easy Rider outlines the many joys of riding a bike in New Zealand, and provides a complete beginners'...