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He pakipoto mā ngā kaipānui katoa i roto tonu i te reo Māori – a collection of short stories for all in te reo Māori.He rangatahi ngākau whiwhita ki ngā waka tetere. He kairapuhara wahine Māori e mahitahi ana ki roto i te ao kikokiko me te ao atua. He kaihoahoa hūmārie ka tukirae atu ki...

Look at her. How serene she is in her long white dress, eyes closed like a stone copy of herself. Perhaps she lives on air. We would like a little piece of her – a hank of hair, a pared fingernail slender as a new moon, a wisp of skin peeled from a sunburned shoulder…England, the near future.Dum...

The Valley of Unlikely AcquaintancesA remarkable debut that follows one close-knit Māori community and the Wairarapa forest they are fighting to restore.Tīria is a revolutionary scientist—or so she likes to think. Her work at the whānau-led Kōpuaranga Research Centre has transformed the valley...

A ghost moves into a woman’s apartment and begins to cough up teeth. A town keeps building as the sea prepares to take it back. A daughter inherits hunger like an heirloom.In this collection of short stories set along a shifting coastline, the boundaries between body and memory, human and nonhuman...

In eleven stories, Anna Scaife describes the sudden fear, the macabre, the middle-age feminist rage, and the unexpected tragedies which befall everyday New Zealanders. We turned and sprinted until our lungs stung in our chests. I kept my eyes on the road. I tasted acid, like the candied ginger Nan s...

Find me here where the sea meets the landWhere the rocks are black and so is the sandOn the wild west coast of Aotearoa, twelve-year-old Ned lives with his mother in a bach above Te Henga’s black sand beach. He is thoughtful and observant, the sort of boy who knows that too much in his life is une...

Poems reflecting on Rilke’s Duino Elegies, and family, friends and the self.This winter, on Otago Harbourthe mirror images are clearer   than ever before.The harbour waits, still and silent,soaking up the meagre sun, silk-like,   white-blue, crystalline.In it, everything is reflected �...

A stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Witi Ihimaera's classic novel a must have for any serious collector's library.'As timely and as relevant as it was nearly forty years ago.' Shilo KinoIn this landmark novel that won international acclaim, a young girl breaks with tradition...

A stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Maurice Gee's classic novel a must have for any serious collector's library.Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, and introducing one of its most memorable characters, the multigenerational story of an...

Patricia Grace's timeless novel bound in a beautifully crafted, clothbound hardback edition for the Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics series"..a book that has a simplicity that can break your heart and a complexity that can dazzle your mind and, for me, stands as Patricia Grace's towering achievement...

Jenny Pattrick's number-one bestselling novel is bound in a beautifully crafted, clothbound hardback edition for the Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics seriesA stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Jenny Pattrick's classic novel a must have for any serious collector's library.High...

The stunning final novel from one of New Zealand's finest writers. Ambitious, funny, wise and deeply affecting, calls to mind the immersive narratives of Elena Ferrante and Isabel Allende.'And here I was thinking we were just ordinary people.'From the landscapes of the Far North, through inner-city...

For the 2025 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 141 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #59 showcases the raw and the vital ― including from this year’s featured poet, Mark Prisco...

If you and I are in the same =‘entertainment venue’ for this =‘stand-up comedy special’ and I am =‘my body’ and you are =‘my audience’ I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you are there.Yes, you=‘dear reader’=‘attentive listener’.This is a story about t...

A new poetry collection from award-winning writer Airini Beautrais. a portrait of an uneasy stretch of time. The poet looks back at various episodes of her life and then far ahead, to other lives and ways of seeing. She sheds cynicism, celebrates some constraints and rejects others, and keeps rewrit...

In this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television – like love – binds us, liberates us; inspires, infuriates and illuminates us. a poetic chronicle of Haro’ s time in Aotearoa, South Korea and the United States of America. In four parts – ‘ Daytime Television’ , ‘ Prim...

The debut novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries and Birnam Wood.As a rumour spreads about a teacher sleeping with a student, a group of teenage girls are jolted into new awareness of their own vertiginous sexuality. Ripples move outward in unexpected directions: the saxophon...

From acclaimed author Lawrence Patchett, a compulsively readable story collection about men who are trying to do better. Whether training a rescue dog, starting a bucket chain to put out a raging fire, raising a marquee beside a line of Ferraris, or reporting on a sensitive workplace accident, the m...

Funerals happen.You walk past oneand call it a Tuesdayafternoon; the suncomes down. Thisis how it happens.A crowd gathers like black water, the mind forgets the mind, memories come knocking in the hallway, a pair of hands perfect the moon: is the debut poetry collection by Jackson McCarthy. Desire...

A new novel from the best-selling author of The Space Between.Two worlds, two women, one story.In 1793, eighteen-year-old Catherine is sentenced to transportation on the Tempest, a convict ship bound for New South Wales. Trapped below deck with scores of women, she endures storms, brutality and loss...

A joyride to the digital frontier of sex from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting young artists. No holes barred.Rough sketches of suburban banality provide the perfect set up: A WINZ officer in a deadbeat Northland town; a grieving middle-aged church-goer; a devoted dad with tenure and a barbecue. Bl...

A powerful and compelling new novel about friendship, false prophets and the lure of belonging- from the bestselling author of One of Those Mothers.'Other People's Bodies is a tender exploration of the complex boundaries between love, desire, trust and control, and the healing power of female friend...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for FictionNamed one of the best books of 2024 by The Spinoff and NewsroomIn the Bookety Book Books Reader's Choice Top 10'I couldn't put it down - a moving, heartbreaki...

A powerful literary debut from an astonishing new Kiwi voice, focusing on the Indo-Fijian indenture system and how it affected generations across the Pacific.Rajasthan 1888: Avani Rathod, a nomad of the community, is summoned to teach a blue-eyed colonial officer the trees of her region, but instead...