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Back to the bush with another round of cracking yarns from the best-selling author of Sam The Trap Man, including a guide to edible native plants and treesBack to the bush with the bestselling author of Sam The Trap ManSam Gibson's best-selling debut, Sam The Trap Man, introduced us to a natural-bor...

The Art and Science of Continuous ImprovementFrom delinquent to doctor, Paul Wood knows first-hand how far we can take our lives if we address what holds us back.At the age of 18, Wood was sent to New Zealand's toughest prison. Almost 11 years later, in 2006, he walked out a free man, escaping his p...

James Cook is one of the most contested figures in Aotearoa New Zealand’s past. Today, his name evokes not only exploration and scientific endeavour but also the violence of first encounters and the enduring legacies of colonisation. In this major new history, Tony Ballantyne examines how stories...

Lo-fi, hand-built and produced in small editions by devoted zinesters, zines are an ever-evolving and enduring publishing phenomenon. This lively book tells the Aotearoa zine story, from our first punk-rock music zine in 1980 to the plethora of contemporary zinefests of the early twenty-first centur...

When Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaining social bonds, moving together in synchrony, their communication constant and subtle. In domesti...

This stunning book is a darkly evocative exploration of the enigmatic and powerful work of New Zealand artist Jason Greig, whose monoprints and drawings conjure a singular world of mythic archetypes, inner torment and gothic seduction.Richly illustrated, it offers a thematic and visual journey throu...

In 2010, poet-artists John Puhiatau Pule and Gregory O’Brien embarked on a voyage of artmaking and travel around the South Pacific, making collaborative hings, corresponding, writing poetry and immersing themselves in Moana Oceania.Sixteen years on, their collaboration continues to yield a heady m...

From the front bench to rock bottom- Go Hard or Go Home is Kiri Allan's fearless memoir of ambition, disruption and survival in politics and beyond.Kiri Allan's six-year political career spanned some of the most challenging times in recent history.Events a government might encounter once in a genera...

‘When we’re young, we learn the stories of others.When we’re adults, we create our own story.When we’re old, we tell our story.’From the beginning, Tainui Stephens has been finding stories. In people, in place, and in the shifting shape of Māori life in Aotearoa. And through a career in f...

In this wide-ranging collection, award-winning historian Aroha Harris brings together more than two decades of writing. The essays move across time and place: from the intimate spaces of whānau memory to Māori land struggles, the quiet determination of nurses, aunties and activists, and the futur...

Hero Whakaari helicopter pilot and former NZSAS soldier Mark Law on surviving a series of life-threatening events that would shape his life and career.Lucky You're Tough chronicles the life of helicopter pilot and NZSAS soldier Mark Law, from growing up in the rural wilds of Whangamōmona through to...

Inside Jacinda Ardern's tumultuous years as Prime Minister: power, politics, and personal revelations from one of her closest advisors.'Every Prime Minister needs someone who will challenge them - and that was you.'So said Jacinda Ardern to Andrew Campbell on his final day as her Chief Press Secreta...

The extraordinary story of a remarkable woman who has shaped New Zealand's historyIn 1988, Silvia Cartwright published what would become a landmark report, the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, into medical malpractice against cervical cancer patients. While many praised the investigation, some in the medica...

The Pacific voyages of James Cook sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, discovered unknown lands and peoples and made their Captain an icon of imperial history. Yet, as Anne Salmond shows, the story of these epic South Sea journeys is far more than one of...

The Farm is a lyrical and entertaining journey to the heart of rural life in New Zealand from one of our greatest living writers.When Bruce Ansley visited a friend on a sheep farm on Banks Peninsula, they pointed out a property for sale, down by the water.Down a drive curving through sycamores, oaks...

Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world’s greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as a wildlife artist in the 1960s, before moving to England where he has spent the majority of his career. He has never lost his interest in his roots, howeve...

Terry Stringer ONZM is one of New Zealand's best known and most distinguished sculptors. His works in bronze, both very large and intimate in scale, are found in many collections, private and public. Now 80, he continues to make vital work. This lusciously illustrated book, edited by well-known art...

Tapa: Pacific histories in cloth is the most significant contribution of knowledge about tapa in a generation, offering new views on its practices, meanings and histories across art, dress, culture and curation. This multi-authored book draws upon the vast collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te...

Samuel Butler, born in England, lived in Canterbury, New Zealand, from 1860 to 1864. Hebecame a notable explorer and successful sheep farmer in a part of the Southern Alps now renowned for its use in the Lord of the Rings. His satiric fiction Erewhon and his autobiographical novel The Way of All Fle...

Len Lye, the artist and film-maker, wrote this colourful account of his early years in New Zealand. It covers his most intense experiences during the first two-dozen years of his life, including his childhood years at the Cape Campbell lighthouse, his passion for drawing, his exploration of sex, and...

uncovers the stories that helped build our collective history, from pioneering tales of New Zealand’s first bank and company to stories of high treason, nautical disasters, courage and survival.For over 40 years retired journalist Tom Clarke has compiled this collection of fascinating, entertainin...

There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this time. His client, Rikihana, was already on multiple shoplifting charges. What’s a few more? Lewis thought. These supermarkets were still making a killing.It�...

‘The legitimacy of the state is at best questionable and certainly remains legally unsettled.’Legal scholar Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi and Tainui) confronts the deeply rooted questions surrounding the legitimacy of the New Zealand state and its sovereignty over Māori...

This landmark collection presents fresh, progressive perspectives on what it means to be ‘Asian’ in Aotearoa.Te Papa curator Grace Gassin draws together journalists, researchers, activists, filmmakers and political commentators to relate experiences of living between cultures and to explore the...