Extract from: The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa by Tim Fulton (David Bateman Ltd).

In The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa, rural journalist Tim Fulton explores more than 200 kilometres of mountains, rivers and valleys bordering Canterbury and Marlborough.

October 2022 release

Extract from: Rakiura: The Wild Landscapes of Stewart Island by Rob Brown (Potton & Burton).

Stewart Island/Rakiura is one of our special places, an island that is increasingly cherished by New Zealanders, whose appreciation for its wild character has flourished in recent years. This has inspired the revising of Rakiura, the work of leading landscape photographer Rob Brown, which was first published in 2006.

November 2022 release

Extract from: New Zealand Gardens to Visit by Rosemary Barraclough and Juliet Nicholas (RHNZ Godwit).

An inspiring guide to outstanding New Zealand gardens that are open to visit (and sometimes to stay).

November 2022 release

Extract from: Learning to be French (and failing) by Anna Bibby (Allen & Unwin NZ)

What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim?

October 2022 release

Extract from: The Other Way by David Trubridge (David Trubridge Press).

The Other Way marries designer David Trubridge's visual response to the details and textures of the land with poetic, descriptive and philosophical writing about the land and his relationship with it.

July 2022 release

Extract from: in memory of travel by Grant Sheehan (Phantom House NZ).

In memory of travel takes the reader on a series of journeys, from the Central American coast of Nicaragua, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, and the frozen world of Antarctica to many places in between. Grant Sheehan recounts not only the trials, tribulations, and adventures of travelling the world as a working photographer but also explores the place travel occupies in our memory, and how it can and does change the way we view ourselves and the world around us.

August 2022 release

Extract from: More Retro Caravans: Vantastic Kiwi Collections by Don & Marilyn Jessen (David Bateman Ltd).

More Retro Caravans brings together another collection of wonderfully restored caravans from the 1920s to the 1980s highlighting some of the local history behind these vehicles and the people who lovingly restore them.

September 2022 release

Extract from: Dogs in Early New Zealand Photographs with an introduction by Mike White (Te Papa Press).

This entertaining selection of over 100 photos of New Zealand dogs reveals some of the more curious ways in which they have appeared in photographic collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

April 2022 release

Extract from: Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar: A window into Miocene Zealandia by Daphne Lee, Uwe Kaulfuss and John Conran (Otago University Press)

A paleontological site of international significance, Foulden Maar in Otago, New Zealand is home to an amazing record of life on Earth. In Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar, authors Daphne Lee, Uwe Kaulfuss and John Conran share their passion and knowledge for this extraordinary spot, telling its story and revealing the paleontological discoveries that have been made to date.

August 2022 release

Writer: Simon Wilson. Photography: Mark Smith.

Photographed by Mark Smith and with text by renowned writer Simon Wilson, and Professor Deidre Brown and Dr Karamia Muller of the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture, HomeGround represents an enduring record of a remarkable building built for a remarkable organisation, created through the aroha and vision of many.

December 2022 release

Author: Jean Donaldson. Reviewer: Alex Eagles.

This book is a shout-out to the weird and wonderful endangered species in Aotearoa, those lesser-known creatures that don’t regularly make the news. But they are just as important as the ‘stars’ like kākāpō and kiwi, for they are the foundation of our unique biodiversity.

November 2022 release

Writer: Phil Walsh.

From beyond the Denniston Plateau - the birthplace of New Zealand coalmining unionism - comes the remarkable story of the Cascade Westport Coal Company.

July 2022 release

Writer: Sarah Jane Barnett.

After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her 40s, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result.

June 2022 release

Extract from: Auckland Zoo 100 Years of Stories: A century of wild life at Auckland Zoo by Sarah Ell with Aja Pendergrast and Jane Healy (in association with Sherlock-Co).

Living at the Zoo is every animal-mad kid’s dream. But for former head curator and veterinarian Richard Jakob-Hoff, it was just part of the job.

November 2022 release

Writer: Pamela Wood.

Pamela Wood’s New Zealand Nurses draws on nurses’ personal stories to identify the values, traditions, community and folklore of the nursing culture from 1880 – when hospital reforms began to formally introduce ‘modern nursing’ into New Zealand – to 1950, three years after New Zealand severed its final tie as part of the British Empire.

April 2022 release

Author: James Ryan.

Join teen author James Ryan as he shares a bunch of surprising, cool and occasionally gross facts with us about some of nature’s most awesome animals and their built-in weapons.

January 2022 release

Author: Lynley Hargreaves. Reviewer: Alison Ballance.

Written by Lynley Hargreaves, Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand’s Glaciers tells the stories of our glaciers through the lens of human interaction, with chapters moving through time from first Māori discoverers to colonial explorers, mountaineers and modern glaciologists.

November 2022 release

Author: Neville Peat. Reviewer: Alison Ballance.

Home Is An Island is a writer's tribute to the islands of Aotearoa New Zealand

November 2022 release

He arotakenga: Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the Shadows of Barry Crump me Rugby Head: A Man, a Game, a Shambles… Nā David Hill

August 2022 releases

Author: Paul Diamond. Reviewer: David Herkt.

Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay is an important new history considered through a queer lens.

November 2022 release