NEW ZEALAND POPULAR PENGUINS

Following on from the hugely successful and widely welcomed launch of the first series of the New Zealand Popular Penguins comes  another ten of the very best.
The ten additional titles selected feature more of New Zealand’s finest ever novels – and the authors included reads like a who’s who of the NZ literary world. All are absolute Kiwi classics, with some titles winning the Montana Award.

Just released titles:

Live Bodies – Maurice Gee

Mutuwhenua – Patricia Grace
All Visitors Ashore – C K Stead
Let the River Stand – Vincent O’Sullivan
Sons For the Return Home – Albert Wendt
The Garden Party and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield
The Scarecrow – Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Hang on a Minute Mate – Barry Crump
Pounamu Pounamu – Witi Ihimaera
The Book of Fame – Lloyd Jones

and the March 2009 titles:

Came A Hot Friday, Ronald Hugh Morrieson

Going West, Maurice Gee
The Grandiflora Tree, Koea Shonagh
Man Alone, Mulgan John
Oracles and Miracles, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Plumb, Maurice Gee
Potiki, Patricia Grace
The Skinny Louie Book, Fiona Farrell
Smith’s Dream, C. K Stead.
The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera

I admire and applaud this Penguin initiatve and hope in a year or so they might issue a further ten from the riches in their backlist. At this price it makes these great titles available to a new generation of readers as well as enabling older readers like me to buy titles missed first time around. Bravo.