Penguin New Zealand: 464 books

**A novel about the transporting power of the imagination, about overcoming violence, and about the beauty and resilience of a solitary life.**Ellis has come to appreciate her solitary life, in her bungalow not far from the sea. As she looks from her window, she begins to find a way to confront and...

**Witty and poignant, wicked and touching, another entertaining novel from popular writer Shonagh Koea.**As Christmas approaches, Evelyn's 'friends' the Clarks become more and more anxious about where she is going to spend Christmas, or more precisely with whom. They push forward a worrying assortment...

**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...

**An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life.**In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the...

**Understand your stress triggers and develop resilience and mindfulness so you can cope well.**An excellent overview of what stress is and what causes it, including the thoughts and feelings that generate stress, the things we do when we are stressed, and the red alerts for stress at work. The author,...

**A superb collection of short stories that celebrate the power of the written word.**Giving an innovative take on the many forms of reading that bombard us in our everyday lives - from e- to junk-mail, gardening to cookbooks, tourist guides to romance novels - these stories play with them all. They...

**Entertaining, sad, funny, thought-provoking, this is a novel based on the life of an exceptional man, who happened to be intellectually handicapped.**Inspired by the life of the author's intellectually handicapped brother, Ronald Downes, this novel is written in Ronnie's voice as he talks about...

A darkly comic novel of disintegration, betrayal and revenge. 'Great flocks of emerald budgies are flying through my brain . . .' Ruth is in a state. The kind of state where you might put a hedgehog under the wheel before reversing, or pull on rubber underwear before running drugs to a colleague....

A stunning coming of age novel about running away. *'I think I saw Jenny today. A hemisphere away and fifteen years later . . .'*But could it be the same person that Marie now sees, the friend with whom she shared so much? The friend with whom she thought she would face all the uncertainties of adulthood....

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 rich, absorbing novel that explores the drive for creativity and the dynamics of family.***Peas in a pod. Cherries on a stem. A pair, a set, a perfect match, people seemed to so quickly think . . . as if twins were a tribe of two with a secret understanding, existing in a self-contained, mysterious...

A moving and lyrical novel about enduring love.'I was the girl who killed her brother.' Julie loves her brother, calling him Little Moon and turning to him in times of difficulty. But the terrible accident, when she is only five years old, stains her life and the relationship between Julie's mother...

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...

A book of hope and inspiration for sufferers of eating disorders, **and their families and friends.**This indispensible book details the author's own story of battling anorexia when she was 18, as well as the persoinal stories of other sufferers of bulimia, anorexia and binge eating. There are interviews...