Author: Niki Bezzant Publisher: Penguin Books

Every woman's honest, healthy guide to eating, moving and feeling your best - for the rest of your life. Feel your best - for the rest of your life. The essential new book from bestselling health writer and trusted menopause advocate Niki Bezzant, author of This Changes Everything.

Author: Rita Riccola Publisher: Upstart Press

Life can be challenging and when we feel over-stimulated and disconnected it is costly to our wellbeing. Dreaming of what-ifs and maybes in the future, while regretting and being trapped by our past means we are distracted from living life in the moment. Mindfulness trains the mind to be observant and responsive to the many challenges we face every day.

Author: Xanthe White Publisher: Penguin Books

The bestselling, expert guide to growing your own vegetables organically. In this classic bestseller, expert landscape designer Xanthe White takes readers by the hand and walks them from backyard bombsite to productive vegetable garden in a single year.

May 2024 release

Author: Roanne Barnes Hautapu Publisher: Atuanui Press

In 2013 Quinn Hautapu presented to hospital with the seemingly minor symptom of a limp arm, within a short time she was on a Life Flight to Wellington to work out the cause of a massive bleed on the brain. She was seven years old. A month later, after brain surgery and numerous scans, the Hautapu family was given the shocking news that Quinn had brain cancer. What followed was 12 months of the most intense, emotional and difficult time that a family can experience.

Author: Raewyn Peart Publisher: David Bateman

In 1971, there was little in the way of protection for Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique natural heritage. Progress was the imperative for government and councils, with the land, rivers and coasts simply seen as resources to be exploited. This is the story of how a small organisation took on the establishment and won.

Author: Scott Bainbridge Publisher: David Bateman

Did New Zealand have a secret poisoner? In 1992, builders demolishing a Devonport home stumbled across a skeleton, triggering an investigation that sent shockwaves across the community. The remains belonged to a woman who had died in the 1930s, and whispers soon emerged of the deadly legacy of Nurse Elspeth Kerr.

Author: Dario Nustrini Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand

When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been on a steady diet of spliffs, Speights and the occasional sandwich from the cafe he worked at as a waiter…

Author: Penelope Todd Publisher: Cloud Ink Press

Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb's pride, by the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station.

1 May 2024

Author: Louise Wallace Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Thea lives under a mountain - one that's ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice has been called back during maternity leave and is coping - just - with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss's search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy. But something is shifting in Thea - something is burning. Or is it that she is becoming aware, for the first time, of the bright, hot core at her centre? Then comes an urgent call. Ingeniously layered, Ash is a story about reckoning with one's rage and finding marvels in the midst of chaos.

11 April 2024

Author: Kyle Mewburn Publisher: David Bateman Ltd

11 April 2024

Author: Matthew Wright Publisher: Oratia Books

'Those Who Have the Courage will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the military and social history of New Zealand. It is a comprehensive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, the Mounted Rifles and predecessor units ...' - Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, from the Foreword.

Author: Alice Taylor Publisher: Allen & Unwin

All the classics are included, plus ways to refresh them with a twist here and there.

Alice loves cake, and baking of any kind! She's spent years perfecting these recipes, and shares this essential collection so that you can enjoy them as much as she does.

Author: Jane Robertson. Publisher: Massey University Press.

Jane Robertson’s superbly illustrated history of the people who settled in the many bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is full of finely observed insights into the challenges of living in small, remote communities.

12 October 2023

Author: Paula Wagemaker, Judy Beck & John Hellier. Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing.

A major stop on the Otago Central Rail Trail, this unique book of New Zealand’s longest running general store is perfect for anyone interested in history, biography and society.

1 September 2023

Author: Matthew Wright. Publisher: David Bateman Limited.

In this third, revised and expanded edition of Illustrated History, noted historian Matthew Wright brings New Zealand's turbulent and exciting past to life.

1 September 2023

Author: Jeffrey Sissons. Publisher: Bridget Williams Books.

Jeffrey Sissons’s account illuminates a tumultuous chapter in Aotearoa’s history when Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. It provides a remarkable new chapter in the history of the Māori prophetic movements while casting new light on the Taranaki conflicts of the 1860s, and the lead-up to the invasion of Parihaka

1 September 2023

Author: Matt Elliott. Publisher: David Bateman Limited.

Good As Gold provides a wonderfully eclectic stroll back through life in New Zealand during the decade that gave us such wonders as Space Invaders calculators, R2-D2 ice blocks, Jazzercise and Blue Light discos.

1 September 2023

Author: Miriam Smith. Illustrator: Lesley Moyes. Translator: A.T. Mahuika. Publisher: Picture Puffin.

Annie and Moon / Ko Annie rāua ko Marama is a new bilingual English and Māori edition of the classic and award-winning story about Annie and her black cat Moon and their long search for home, for 3 to 6-year-olds.

29 August 2023

Author: Nicola Toki. Illustrator: Lily Duval. Publisher: Puffin.

Meet some of our most curious critters, from the popular Radio New Zealand podcast with Nicola Toki and Jesse Mulligan.

29 August 2023

Author: Stuart Lipshaw. Publisher: Puffin.

GOOD SPORTS is a powerful illustrated storybook celebrating Aotearoa’s sporting heroes. Be inspired by this collection of true stories about 50 remarkable Kiwi sports heroes: people who have set goals, aimed high and achieved their dreams.

29 August 2023