Author: Ashia Ismail-Singer Publisher: David Bateman Ltd

'From Africa to India, the Middle East, France, the UK and New Zealand, this book will take you on a journey full of flavours and the melded cultures that are my extended family.' Ashia Ismail-Singer Author of My Indian Kitchen and Saffron Swirls and Cardamom Dust, Ashia Ismail-Singer draws on her family's rich and diverse cultures to dish up an inspired banquet where spices are the heroes and food is designed to be shared. The Laden Table is the perfect cookbook for anyone who want to create a bit of magic for their next gathering from canapes, drinks and summer salads to moreish side dishes, hearty mains and luscious cakes and sweet bites.

1st April 2024

Author: Peter Jerram Publisher: Cuba Press

Detritus are the pieces that are left when something or someone breaks, falls apart or is destroyed: gravel from rocks, the organic matter from plants. At the edge of an endangered wetland in Te Ika-a-Maui, Robin Peace writes of what is left of a country colonised not just by people but by the plants and creatures they brought with them, especially the most ignored invader: the grass that replaced Aotearoa's forests and lowlands with lawns and farms..

1st April 2024

Authors: John Gillies Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing

n this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Still a medical student at the time, his youthful admiration of New Zealand war artists from previous conflicts adds a poignant layer to his narrative, told in brief, evocative chapters that offer tantalising glimpses of the variety of humanity he encountered during his time in Vietnam.

27 March 2024

Authors: Lucy Hammonds, Lauren Gutsell, and Bridget Rewet. Publisher: Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills is a substantial bilingual publication to mark the monumental retrospective of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb (NZOM) (1937–2021) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

It presents essays by curators Lucy Hammonds, Lauren Gutsell, and Bridget Reweti, extant poems by Cilla McQueen and Hone Tuwhare and two new ekphrastic poems by Essa May Ranapiri and Ruby Solly.

It features over 80 colour plates from Marilynn’s career spanning 1968 to 2005.

Dec 13 2023

Author: Baye Riddell. Publisher: Te Papa Press

The rise of an impressive ceramics movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Māori art. Clay working and pottery firing was an ancient Pacific practice, but the knowledge had largely been lost by the ancestors of Māori before they arrived in Aotearoa. After the national clayworkers’ collective, Ngā Kaihanga Uku, was established in 1987, traditional ancestral knowledge and customs and connections with indigenous cultures with unbroken ceramic traditions helped shape a contemporary Māori expression in clay.

13 October 2023

Author: Len Gale. Publisher: Oratia Media.

Greenstone Carving takes readers from the origins of pounamu/greenstone through the basics of the artform - design, tools and techniques, different stone types and potential projects.

15 June 2022

Editor: Emma Neale. Reviews Editor: Michelle Elvy. Publisher: Otago University Press.

Results from the 2021 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition as well as stunning new writing from established literary heavyweights and thrilling new voices - the work promises to range from the wry, ludic and lyrical, to gripping body horror as social commentary, which is at once comic and unsettling.

31 May 2021 release