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27/09/2025
PERSONAL PENGUIN 2025 REVEAL!
We're thrilled to be back with another Personal Penguin figurine for Booksellers Aotearoa NZ's Bookshop Day 2025! 🐧 Mark your calendars because this year's figurine will be waddling into bookstores across Aotearoa for ONE DAY ONLY on October 11th .
Whether sitting on your desk or decorating your bookshelf, this little Penguin embodies the magic of losing yourself in a book! 📚
The gang is back in this unmissable new mystery in the bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman!
Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced, and we are thrilled to have four Penguin Random House titles named this year.
Our four shortlisted titles are:
🧡 Flesh by David Szalay
🧡 Audition by Katie Kitamura
🧡 Flashlight by Susan Choi
🧡 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai.
A huge congratulations to these authors, you can read more about them and their books at the link below.
How many have you read so far? Who are you rooting for to win?
The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced, with four Penguin Random House titles named this year.
25/09/2025
Gilbert Enoka's Become Unstoppable is the #1 bestselling NZ published book AGAIN this week! Congratulations Gilbert!
Brené Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atlas of the Heart, returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous and accountable leadership.
In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris and even cruelty are increasingly framed as acceptable leadership, Brown delivers practical, actionable insights that illuminate the mindsets and skill sets essential to reclaiming focus and driving growth through connection, discipline and accountability.
Dr Tara Swart's groundbreaking new book The Signs, is out now!
In this book she draws on breathtaking real-life stories, cognitive science, ancient wisdom and much more to show that signs can guide and empower us.
Watch Dr Tara Swart's talk about her new book on the Diary of a CEO podcast at the link below 👇
What if your brain filters out true reality? World-leading neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart reveals why we have 34 senses, not 5, how grief cracked open her cons...
20/09/2025
Kōrerotia te Reo with Dr Hinemoa - pick up a copy of her bestselling book Aroha, now in te reo Māori, published in collaboration with Kotahi Rau Pukapuka.
And, if you're looking to learn more about te ao Māori, why not explore the rest of Dr Hinemoa's incredible range of pukapuka!
18/09/2025
Voting for Forest & Bird's Bird of the Year 2025 is open!
The Penguin NZ office is backing the Kororā - a bird close to our hearts, and one that we work to protect through our partnership with the Leigh Penguin Project 🐧
Who will you be voting for?
16/09/2025
Kickstart your good life with Jamie Oliver's first healthy-eating cookbook. It's about more not less: more taste, more joy, more energy, more sleep...
We're celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week!
Kōrerotia te Reo this week with the help of our Reo Māori pukapuka. These are the perfect books to start or expand your te reo journey, no matter your skill level!
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole world is watching.
But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that could secure millions for her future – and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father…
In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston’s brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies?
To celebrate the stunning return of Robert Langdon in The Secret of Secrets we are giving away an incredible Dan Brown prize pack containing, the new book, the five earlier Robert Langdon thrillers, a t-shirt (size L) and a limited edition pin!
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