Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local bookmaker. But there's already other skullduggery afoot . . . not to speak of the Te Whakinga Kid, a Zorro nut and the wildest comic ever to ride the ranges.
Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Came A Hot Friday
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local b... Buy or find out more →
Scarecrow
$23.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Neddy Poindexter is fourteen. His sister, the curvy Prudence, is almost sixteen, and is the most glamorous creature in Klynham. Prudence is the talk of the town, and men are lining up to impress her. Neddy knows the volu... Buy or find out more →
New Zealand Popular Penguins
Oracles and Miracles
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in poverty in Christchurch in the thirties and forties and living in a world of dreams. It's a city of ... Buy or find out more →
Came A Hot Friday
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
Arson, murder, sex and hair-raising midnight adventures at a town called Tainuia Junction. It's Friday when the silver-tongued Wes Pennington and his sidekick Cyril Kidman come to town with a trick to play on the local b... Buy or find out more →
The Grandiflora Tree
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
When Bernadette Crichton finds her husband dead, under the beautiful grandiflora tree, she assumes a widowhood that is unconventional and strange. Exiled inside her large house, Bernadette refuses to 'see or be seen' by ... Buy or find out more →
Going West
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley – eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider – takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on ... Buy or find out more →
Man Alone
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
'That's Auckland, mate – the Queen of the North.'
'The what?'
'The Queen of the North. That's what they call it – in Auckland. This is God's own, this country.'
Man Alone is a literary landmark that has haunted our w... Buy or find out more →
The Skinny Louie Book
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Nz
Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first... Buy or find out more →