All New Books
In the Time of the Manaroans
Author: Miro Bilbrough.
Brilliantly captures a largely unwritten historical culture, the Antipodean incarnation of the Back to the Land movement. Contrarian, idealistic, sexually opportunistic and self-mythologising too, this was a movement, as the narrator duly discovers, not conceived with adolescents in mind. 10 September 2020 release
Bill & Shirley: a memoir
Author: Keith Ovenden.
Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith were two of New Zealand’s most significant twentieth-century figures: Sutch as an economist, influential civil servant, and inspirational proponent of innovation in the fields of social and economic development; and Smith as a glass-ceiling breaker and sole practitioner in the formerly male dominated world of the law. 10 September 2020 release
White Moko: stories from my life
Author: Tim Tipene.
A memoir from award-winning writer and inspirational speaker Tim Tipene who founded the Warrior Kids programme 22 years ago.
11 September 2020 release
Tree of Strangers
Author: Barbara Sumner.
Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a gripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person. 10 September 2020 release
The Covid Chronicles: lessons from New Zealand
Author: Paul Little.
The dramatic story of New Zealand's response to a global pandemic.
16 September 2020 release
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits
Author: Ngahiraka Mason & Zara Stanhope.
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. 10 September 2020 release
Bug Week
Author: Airini Beautrais.
A scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy. 10 September 2020 release
Māui me te Ahi a Mahuika
Author/Illustrator: Donovan Bixley. Translators/advisers: Darryn Joseph & Keri Opai.
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Māui captured the secret of fire. Te Reo Māori Edition. 10 September 2020 release
Māui and the Secret of Fire
Author/Illustrator: Donovan Bixley. Translators/advisers: Darryn Joseph & Keri Opai.
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Māui captured the secret of fire. 10 September 2020 release
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