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Whether you want to fish for sprats from a wharf, walk up a stream with a fly rod or cast a line from a boat or kayak, there's a heap of handy information in here.Learn how to tie...

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the...

One summer day, nine-year-old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents...

Stunning retelling of the Māori creation story about the separation of Ranginui, sky-father, and Papatūānuku, earth-mother.​ Te Wehenga is the separation of Ranginui, sky-father, and Papatūānuku, earth-mother. ​Award-winning illustrator Mat Tait has written and illustrated this stunning retelling...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously...

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is viewed in our society. WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST FIRST CRIME NOVELSHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION'Dice has...

Fast-paced middle grade thriller with magic and environmentalism at its heart. It's almost a year since Nissa Marshall was found alive after miraculously surviving a month lost in the vast, dense, isolated bush of Fiordland.Strange, magical things happened...

An epic adventure-fantasy - ancient secrets and a treacherous journey in a vast wilderness. Winner of the Best First Book Award in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young AdultsThe judges said: 'Perfectly pitched for...

Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best NovelThey never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me that day, she vanished off the face of the earth.A close-knit...

 All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King,...

As the sun rises, which creatures come to life and greet the day? This beautiful picture book explores the busy world of the daytime creatures in Aotearoa New Zealand's bush. It includes many reo Maori phrases that we...

Shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s...

Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for studies...

From Booker Prize winning author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. ' A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by...

Let us praisethe small evasions:the missed callthe slight sore throat,the prior engagement … From ‘Little Fibs’Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion.Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the...

In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her dreams....