New Zealand

A unique storybook for grownups High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading...

If you’d like to speak the beautiful Maori language with your kids, this is the book to get you started! Help your tamariki to korero Maori with this brilliant first words book by Stacey Morrison, gorgeously illustrated by...

An incredibly simple, fun and practical Maori dictionary for all New Zealanders. A Maori Word a Day offers an easy, instant and motivating entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 Maori words, you will learn the following:...

A beautifully illustrated chronicle of five decades of tramping and adventuring in New Zealand's Southern Alps.  Geoff Spearpoint is a legend among New Zealand's tramping and mountaineering community.  For over 50 years he has been undertaking many long,...

'One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ...A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with...

The history and use of New Zealand's native plants A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. The Meaning of Trees tells the story of...

Description: In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless,...

All the things you need to know to take your novel to the next level. Learn the craft of storytelling, from dialogue and characters to structure and conflict. Includes advice on publishing and submissions. Written in a straightforward...

A major work by a distinguished historian, Garrison World examines the lives of soldiers and families constituting the British military presence in New Zealand and other territories during the nineteenth century. The British Empire's expansion relied on a...

The Art and Science of Continuous Improvement From delinquent to doctor, Paul Wood knows first-hand how far we can take our lives if we address what holds us back. At the age of 18, Wood was sent to...

James Cook is one of the most contested figures in Aotearoa New Zealand’s past. Today, his name evokes not only exploration and scientific endeavour but also the violence of first encounters and the enduring legacies of colonisation. In...

Expertly curated, and showcasing images taken between 1850 and 2025, this book is an essential reference that honours artistic legacies and explores our identity as a nation. Together these photographs tell stories about life in this country from...

In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm in the tussocked hills of the Māniatoto region of Central Otago. The main feature of this new attraction was the more than 220 high-end fashion garments on display. It...

END OF WINTER CLEARANCE 30% OFF Dame Anne Salmond’s most ambitious book to date which was shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018 and now in paperback format. Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who...

The gannet, or takapu, must set off through the skies to find food for her chick. When she spots a feeding frenzy far below, she needs to act fast. Will she plunge through the waves in time?Can she...

The Chief and the Empire uncovers the extraordinary true tale of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi - the first influential Maori leader to cross the Tasman - whose curiosity about the Pakeha world forged alliances, saved lives, and...

Lushly illustrated book about the history and uses of many of New Zealand's native flowering plants and trees, including their significance in te ao Maori. He puawai, he korero. For every flower, a story. Did you know that...

Aoteroa New Zealand is a pictorial journey through the North and South islands and explores the diverse landscapes and vibrant cultures that make this country truly unique.From the rolling hills of the North Island, to the snow-capped peaks of...

With a career that spans investigating murders at Scotland Yard to identifying bodies after global disasters, one of NZ's leading forensic scientists takes us behind the tape of a lifetime of working on crime scenes. In this empathetic...

The official turn-by-turn guide to bikepacking the length of New Zealand from Cape Reinga to Bluff along the Tour Aotearoa route.

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...

The relationship between takata and whenua-people and land-is a long thread that weaves through the art history of Aotearoa New Zealand.Beginning in Te Waipounamu, our greenstone isle, and reaching outwards, across Aotearoa and beyond to Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the...

For most New Zealanders, Manapouri is associated with the country's largest and most successful environmental protest, but there is another, less well-known narrative of this time. The struggle to drill a tailrace tunnel under a rocky mountain at...

In Arohanui: My Aotearoa New Zealand, over 100 New Zealanders talk about what the country means to them, the special and the worrying, in an inspiring and beautiful book that celebrates our country. Including well-known New Zealanders such as...