Author: Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck). Publisher: Oratia Books.

Vikings of the Sunrise ranks as a masterpiece of Pacific studies. From the pen of one of the greatest Māori thinkers and writers of his generation, the settlement of the Pacific Ocean comes to life. Oratia Books is pleased to bring it back into print for modern readers as part of our NZ Classics series.

18 October 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: Norman Meehan. Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Jenny McLeod was the sensation of New Zealand music. In this biography, Norman Meehan draws on his many conversations with Jenny McLeod, as well as her writings, letters and works, to bring the story of this remarkable composer to life.

12 October 2023

Author: Michael King. Publisher: Penguin.

This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for 20 years and has sold more than 300,000 copies. Now more relevant than ever, this 20th anniversary edition includes a Foreword by Sir Tipene O'Regan and a biographical essay about the author by Jock Phillips.

10 October 2023

Author: Dylan Cleaver. Publisher: Mower.

In this book, long-time cricket journalist Dylan Cleaver dives deep into the best players of the era, from the elegant and erudite Cantabrian Stephen Fleming to the fire-breathing and bustling Neil Wagner, a Black Cap legend despite his highveld upbringing.

05 October 2023

Author: Wayne Smith with Phil Gifford. Publisher: Mower.

In this long-awaited memoir, rugby coaching great Wayne Smith tell his best, most entertaining, insightful, and amusing anecdotes from an amazing career in in the game.

05 October 2023

Author: Robert Vennell. Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand.

The new book about the hidden world of New Zealand's overlooked plants and fungi, from Robert Vennell, the bestselling New Zealand author of The Meaning of Trees.

04 October 2023

Author: Jared Savage. Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand.

The much anticipated follow-up to Jared Savage’s bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.

04 October 2023

Author: Justine Ross with Geoff Ross. Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand.

An inspirational new memoir about leaving the city for a life in the high country by the authors of Every Bastard Says No, Justine and Geoff Ross.

04 October 2023

Author: Jan Jordan. Publisher: The Cuba Press.

An honest, unapologetic and moving account of trauma, survival and advocacy.

29 September 2023

Author: Lynnette Moon. Publisher: White Cloud Books.

New Zealand Bird Calls is an essential guide for any beginner or bird enthusiast to enjoy in the field or at home, and it will open up new ways to get to know birds by their calls. Readers can click on the relevant QR Code within the book using a smart phone and hear a 30 second clip of that bird's song.

14 September 2023

Author: Rebecca Fawkner. Publisher: Massey University Press.

Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of artist Len Lye.

14 September 2023

Author: Avis Acres. Publisher: Picture Puffin.

The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa, a bestselling classic children's book from the 1950s by New Zealand artist Avis Acres, is reissued by popular demand in a gorgeous hardback gift edition.

5 September 2023

Author: Lynley Dodd. Publisher: Puffin.

A special edition of the Hairy Maclary Treasury to celebrate the raggedy rascal’s 40th birthday! This volume brings together all ten of his mischievous and mad adventures, along with a link to download the audio book.

5 September 2023

Author: Tania Sickling. lllustrators: Lael Chisholm. Publisher: Scholastic Books.

Uh-oh—Grandpa’s back in another sticky (and sweet) situation!

5 September 2023

Author: Suzy Cato and Kath Bee. lllustrations: Rose Northey. Publisher: Scholastic Books.

From children’s en­tertainer Suzy Cato and award-winning singer Kath Bee, comes a story of affirmation; a story to encourage children to use their imaginations and give things a go.

5 September 2023

Author: Olive Jones. Publisher: Potton & Burton.

In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one of a group of hippies, idealists, and subsistence farmers that set up an alternative community in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. Influenced by the countercultural movement sweeping the country during the 1970s and 80s, they were part of a widespread interest in communal living, a generation of young people inspired to reject mainstream culture. In her deeply personal memoir, Commune, Olive recalls the dreams, the madness, the humour and hard work of this hugely rewarding experience, but too, the ultimate demise of this utopian experiment.

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: Helen Beaglehole. Photographer: Matthew O’Reilly. Publisher: The Cuba Press.

Light and Reflections is a story of a home filled with contemporary New Zealand art and the family who collected it over two generations and nearly 90 years. Author Helen Beaglehole and photographer Matthew O'Reilly open the red front door of the Beaglehole home in Messines Road, Karori, and invite readers to experience a singular art collection.

1 September 2023