All New Books
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An Illustrated History
Author: Claudia Orange. Publisher: Bridget Williams Books.
Originally published in 1987, this updated edition is the most comprehensive account yet, presented in full colour and drawing on Dr Orange’s recent research into the nine sheets of the Treaty and their signatories.
8 December 2020 release
Election Day of the Dead: seventy haiku from the Americas
Author: Doc Drumheller. Translator: Dylan Brennan. Illustrator: Liliana Perez-Brennan. Publisher: Cold Hub Press.
Seventy haiku by Doc Drumheller written while travelling in the USA and Central America. With Spanish versions by Dylan Brennan.
3 December 2020 release
Karl Maughan
Editors: Hannah Valentine & Gabriella Stead. Publisher: Auckland University Press.
A walk through the intricate painted gardens of Karl Maughan, one of New Zealand’s most-loved contemporary artists.
3 December 2020 release
Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime
Author: Jared Savage. Publisher: HarperCollins NZ.
In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organised crime and violent gangs.
2 December 2020 release
Archangel’s Sun
Author: Nalini Singh. Publisher: Hachette.
A horrifying secret rises in the aftermath of an archangelic war in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh's deadly and beautiful Guild Hunter world.
24 November 2020 release
The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait
Author: Vincent O’Sullivan. Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ).
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life.
16 November 2020 release
Me, According to the History of Art
Author: Dick Frizzell. Publisher: Massey University Press.
The art history education you've been missing. Painting tips included.
12 November 2020 release
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde
Authors: Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima. Publisher: Massey University Press.
In Shining Land Morris and Sameshima focus on the New Zealand journalist, poet, fiction writer and war correspondent Robin Hyde, exploring three locations important to her difficult life and ground-breaking work.
12 November 2020 release
This is Not a Pipe
Author: Tara Black. Publisher: Victoria University Press.
Tara Black’s comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn’t find another book remotely like it, you would win.
12 November 2020 release
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004-2020
Author: Bernadette Hall. Publisher: Victoria University Press.
Fancy Dancing is Bernadette’s eleventh collection of poetry. ‘It’s as close as I’ll ever get to writing an autobiography,’ she says, laughing.
12 November 2020 release
Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand
Authors: Peter Alsop, Neill Atkinson, Katherine Milburn and Richard Wolfe. Publisher: Te Papa Press.
For many decades the Railways Department's design studios, Railways Studio, was New Zealand's 'go-to' advertiser. Its tourism and product ads appear on railway-station hoardings and billboards throughout the land, and it developed some of New Zealand's most iconic graphic images. This big, beautiful book brings this treasure trove of design together for the first time.
12 November 2020 release
Love America: On the Trail of Writers & Artists in New Mexico
Author: Jenny Robin Jones. Publisher: Calico Publishing.
A fine writer’s highly personal, richly imaginative insights into a small but fascinating corner of America.
November 2020 release
Portrait of a Man
Author: Vicky Adin. Publisher: AM Publishing.
A mystery in the world of art - threads link 1860s Dunedin and Invercargill with contemporary Auckland, all tied together by Luciano, the mysterious Italian lover from The Cornish Knot.
November 2020 release
Jacko. One Bloke. One Year.
Author: Robert Philip Bolton.
Publisher: Robert Philip Bolton.
Jackson Fearnsby’s fiftieth year began badly, ended better, and was in between punctuated by a series of seasonal events and anniversaries shared with his friends and family.
2 November 2020 release
Tableland: The History Behind Mt Arthur, Kahurangi National Park
Author: Ray Salisbury.
Publisher: Potton & Burton
Tableland is the story of the area behind Mt Arthur on the eastern side of Kahurangi National Park, and of the explorers, graziers, miners, hunters and trampers, as well as many others who lived and worked in this much loved area of backcountry.
November 2020 release
A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water
Author: Hana Pera Aoake.
Publisher: Compound Press.
This authoritative debut volume collects a number of the author’s provocative texts from online sources, and reformats them for a new printed experience, brought to life by special use of the mid-20th Century typefaces designed by Samoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward.
November 2020 release
2020 Cricket Almanack
Editors: Francis Payne & Ian Smith.
Publisher: Upstart Press.
The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover’s bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind.
November 2020 release
Fair Weather Hitchhiker
Author: Julia Millen. Publisher: Cuba Press.
As a restless 17-year-old seeking fame and fortune (and romance), Julia Millen goes hitchhiking in the South Island with her cousin and two older friends. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life.
9 November 2020 release
Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa
Editor: Tom Doig. Publisher: Bridget Williams Books.
This book brings together mātauranga Māori and Pasifika perspectives, voices from academia, activism, journalism and economics to bear witness to these troubled times.
9 November 2020 release
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