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

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

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: Paul Diamond. Reviewer: David Herkt.

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

November 2022 release

Editors: Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi and Anisha Sankar. Reviewer: Ruth Smith.

A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brings together a powerful group of scholars, writers and activists in Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand.

September 2022 release

Author: Roger Horrocks. Reviewer: Graham Reid.

Culture in a Small Country, by Roger Horrocks, provides a remarkably wide-ranging but indepth account of the arts in New Zealand.

August 2022 release

Author: Nick Bollinger. Reviewer: Graham Reid.

In 400 engrossing pages, Nick Bollinger pulls art, music, theatre and the street press into this excellent, entertaining and important book.

August 2022 release

“There’s a familiarity, a warmth in these stories that allows women like me to see and be seen. The pages are singing. Our voices, our call. It’s time to ensure the world gets to see us as we truly are,” Jane Lowe on the writing of Moana women.

Author: Andrea Vance. Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself.

July 2022 release

Author: Sophie Merkens. Reviewer: Dionne Christian.

Grow is a book with a seemingly modest premise that quietly and thoughtfully ends up addressing big issues with simple but insightful stories and ideas and a refreshing dose of honesty.

June 2022 release

Authors: Gareth Hughes. Reviewer: Holly Walker.

A Gentle Radical is a fascinating, inspiring and sometimes depressing read; Fitzsimons launched New Zealand’s first climate change campaign in the late 1980s. If the then government – or any since – had heeded her calls, we might not be in the difficult position we are now…

May 2022 release

Author: Rowan Light. Reviewer: David Littlewood.

Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia is a fascinating and timely book.

March 2022 release

Author: Neil Vallelly. Reviewer: Lauren Keenan.

In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly puts forward a proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.

17 January 2022 release

Author: Matt McEvoy. Reviewer: David Herkt.

Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives has the avowed ambition of telling stories that “challenge stereotypes and offer courage and hope.”

February 2022 release

Author: David Young. Reviewer: Laura Goodall.

I hope that Wai Pasifika will help ignite a change in policymakers’ thinking towards a more holistic, long-term, sustainable and resilient way of living.

October 2021 release

Author: Qiane Matata-Sipu. Reviewer: Siena Yates.

For too long, we were taught that any type of confidence and self-hype was narcissistic and unbecoming. Nuku is filled with women lauding their indigeneity, their strength and their gifts, and telling others that it’s okay to do the same.

January 2022 release

Author: Renee Hollis. Reviewer: David Christian.

If you’re hoping for a short read before a good night’s sleep, I cannot recommend Voice of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories because once you open it, it will be hours before you can close it. Whether you choose to just dip into it or start a continuous read, it will captivate you.

November 2021 release

Author: Richard Shaw. Reviewer: David Hill.

In this deft memoir The Forgotten Coast, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.

November 2021 release

Author: Anthony Phelps. Reviewer: Michael Burgess.

Even knowing the context, the images in September 12 – The third test and final protest of the 1981 Springbok Tour

November 2021 release

Author: Max Rashbrooke. Reviewer: Penny Hartill.

Too Much Money is probably this country’s most insightful, well-researched, clearly written treatise on Aotearoa’s wealth divide to date.

November 2021 release