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2026 Auckland Writers Festival

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The Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki has sparked a hiss and a roar following today’s full programme launch. There’s a real buzz in the air as locals look forward to a massive week of kōrero and stories across the Aotea Centre and venues around the city. If you’re keen to get amongst it, earlybird tickets go on sale this Friday, 13 March, so it’s worth moving fast to snag a deal before the May madness begins on 12 May 2026.

Our local talent is well and truly in the spotlight this year, with many Ockham-recognised authors featured right across the programme. The Book of Guilt is a major talking point, with Catherine Chidgey in contention for a third Ockham fiction win. It’s up against some stiff competition on the shortlist, with Ingrid Horrocks’ All Her Lives, Laura Vincent’s Hoods Landing, and Sam Mahon’s How to Paint a Nude all in the running. Even longlisted books like 1985 by Dominic Hoey are getting plenty of love, showing the incredible depth in Kiwi storytelling right now.

For the younger readers and families, the Pukapuka Adventures and schools programmes look brilliant. We’ve got the likes of Matariki Bennett, Kenneth Chapman, and Li Chen heading along to share their craft. It’s a great chance for the kids to see behind the scenes of their favourite books, including the Dragonfall series by Sarina Clark and works by Dr. Hinemoa Elder. These sessions are always high-energy and a top way to get the next generation hooked on a good book.

The non-fiction side of things is looking just as sharp, with the Ockham-shortlisted memoir A Different Kind of Power by Dame Jacinda Ardern being a major drawcard. You’ll also find some pretty gripping reads in the mix like Northbound by Naomi Arnold, The Hollow Boys by Peta Carey, and Tina Makereti’s This Compulsion in Us. These books really dig into what makes us tick as a country, covering everything from our history and leadership to personal stories of grit and resilience.

On the international front, we’ve got a global spread of authors bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. Names like Nikita Gill, Josh Silver, and the award-winning David A. Robertson are set to be highlights. Later in the month, cultural icon Fran Lebowitz will also appear in Auckland for a separate event at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre on 28 May. Whether you're into gritty thrillers or moving poetry, there's a bit of something for everyone in the 2026 season.

2026 Auckland Writers Festival

Festival Fiction

Fiction fans will be queuing for Mick Herron, Amitav Ghosh, Catherine Chidgey, RF Kuang and more!

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  • Ockham Winner
    All Her Lives
    All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture, and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother facing the cost of her son's climate rebellion, the...
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  • Katabasis
    'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS 'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law...
    By R.F. Kuang
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  • What We Can Know
    From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present, and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate...
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  • Ockham Shortlist
    The Book of Guilt
    In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move...
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  • Heart the Lover
    'You knew I'd write a book about you someday' Our narrator understands good love stories — their secrets, their highs, and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire...
    By Lily King
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  • Shirl's Pick
    The Black Monk
    The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book. A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure . . . While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chaotic Auckland childhood to her present day life, Alice...
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  • The Names
    Tomorrow - if morning comes, if the storm stops raging - Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she'll formalise who he will become. It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband...
    By Florence Knapp
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  • Booker Prize
    Flesh
    From 2025 Booker Prize Winner author David Szalay comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. 'A revelatory novel' - Sunday Times 'Brilliance on every page' - Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town...
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Festival Non-Fiction

Incredible speakers including Jacinda Ardern, Patrick Radden Keefe, Karen Hao, Lyse Doucet, Luke Kemp, Jimmy Wales and more...

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  • Shirl's Pick Shirl's Pick
    Every Second Counts
    Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including military and political crackdowns and natural disasters. Set in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist...
    By Charlotte Glennie
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  • How Will I Ever Get Through This?
    'Dr Lucy's unpacking of the grief that comes with living losses was a lightbulb moment for me.' Ellidy Pullin 'The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone's.' Martin Seligman 'Lucy's insights are practical, wise, and deeply human - they stay with you long after you read them.' Chelsea Pottenger From bestselling author and TED speaker...
    By Lucy Hone
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  • Hannah's Pick Hannah's Pick
    The Dead Speak
    In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic investigators pulls back the police tape and walks us straight into the crime scenes. With sharp detail, he reveals how the tiniest fragment of evidence can expose a suspect, prove a motive, or confirm an identity. Sometimes, all at once. But crime scenes are...
    By Thomas Coyle
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  • New Release
    Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer
    Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera – author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider – decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full-time at Te Wānanga Takiura, immersing himself in his own language, in te reo Māori. This book tells the story of this kaikaukau, this swimmer, and his year...
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  • Goliath’s Curse
    Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp offers a radical retelling of human history through the lens of collapse, delving into what this means for our uncertain future. This narrative spans from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. It's grounded in the latest research and a comprehensive database of more than 440...
    By Luke Kemp
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  • Fire in Every Direction
    ‘Moving and generous’ Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost Fire in Every Direction is a marvel Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ‘Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful’ Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King ‘I am forever changed after reading this book’ Javier Zamora, author of Solito ‘A deeply inspiring and absorbing...
    By Tareq Baconi
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  • Giving Birth to My Father
    By Tusiata Avia
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  • A Maori Phrase a Day
    A Maori Phrase a Day by Hemi Kelly is a modern, user-friendly phrasebook designed for all New Zealanders who wish to connect more deeply with the Māori language and culture. This book offers a delightful and accessible entry point into te reo Māori, presenting 365 phrases that cover everyday life and aims to build an enriching language learning journey through...
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New Zealand Writers

Aotearoa's finest including Jacinda Ardern, Catherine Chidgey, Tāme Iti, Barry Soper and more join the star-studded lineup...

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  • The Vanishing Place
    Jane Harper's Force of Nature meets the wild and atmospheric setting of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah in this twisty, stay-up-all-night thriller about family, love, and loyalty, and the fight for survival in the most beautiful but dangerous New Zealand wilderness. On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged...
    By Zoe Rankin
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  • Shirl's Pick
    The Black Monk
    The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book. A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure . . . While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chaotic Auckland childhood to her present day life, Alice...
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  • Ockham Shortlist
    The Book of Guilt
    In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move...
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  • Ockham Shortlist
    Hoods Landing
    Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them. In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other's buttons, but know...
    By Laura Vincent
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  • A Different Kind of Power
    Ockham Winner
    A Different Kind of Power
    What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made...
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  • Shirl's Pick Shirl's Pick
    Every Second Counts
    Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including military and political crackdowns and natural disasters. Set in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist...
    By Charlotte Glennie
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  • Mana
    Mana. It's a big word. But what is it? Are you born with it, can you earn it, can it be taken away? For more than five decades, Tāme Iti has stood at the heart of Aotearoa's struggle for indigenous rights. From land marches to performance art, police raids to prison cells, his voice has challenged New Zealand to reckon...
    By Tāme Iti
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  • Hannah's Pick Hannah's Pick
    The Dead Speak
    In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic investigators pulls back the police tape and walks us straight into the crime scenes. With sharp detail, he reveals how the tiniest fragment of evidence can expose a suspect, prove a motive, or confirm an identity. Sometimes, all at once. But crime scenes are...
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Kids & Young Readers

Children, young people (and their grown ups) can experience the magic of Dav Pilkey, Sarina Clark and Rachael King at this year's festival...

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  • Big Jim Believes (Dog Man #14)
    Power up with Dog Man: Big Jim Believes from the global #1 bestselling author and award-winning artist Dav Pilkey. Join the journey as our heroes discover the influence of belief and find truth from within. With threads of self-awareness, confidence, and integrity, Dav Pilkey masterfully crafts a humorous and heartfelt adventure, weaving together the importance of truth, goodness, and believing...
    By Dav Pilkey
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  • Aria and the Kūmara God
    A full-colour illustrated chapter book for readers 6 years plus that returns to the exciting magical world of the Astromancer! Will headstrong Aria manage the impossible climb up to the stars and free Te Kokorangi from Ruatapu's clutches before time runs out? Enter the exciting and dangerous world of the Astromancer... This epic magical adventure inspired by Māori mythology is...
    By Witi Ihimaera
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    The Raven's Eye Runaways
    Three friends and a one-eyed raven find themselves up against the rulers who restrict the gifts of writing and reading to an elite few. They must go on a wild and unpredictable rescue mission. Who and what will they meet along their way? And what is the terrible truth behind everything they think they know about their world? 'You will...
    By Claire Mabey
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  • The Case of the Angry Ghost: Violet and the Velvets Book 2
    The Case of the Angry Ghost: Violet and the Velvets Book 2 by Rachael King follows Violet and her band as they make it to BandChamps! Armed with their own songs, they're competing alongside their school rivals, The Alphas, for glory. But wait! Strange goings-on are afoot at the Royal Theatre, where it's rumoured a grumpy ghost ballerina haunts the...
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  • The Grimmelings
    'Splendidly inventive, expertly controlled, full of passion and compassion, and a narrative I would give four fingernails to have thought of.' — David Hill 'A compelling and lovingly crafted novel.' — David Mitchell The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should...
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  • Kings of This World
    Vex is used to people being afraid of her special power, the ability to persuade others to do what she wants. But when she arrives at a new school, Tiebold Academy, it is packed with people who have the same special power as her, and who might even like her. There is her roommate Ronnie, a coolheaded high achiever, and...
    By Elizabeth Knox
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  • The Whale Rider
    A beautiful picture book retelling of Witi Ihimaera's bestselling novel The Whale Rider, illustrated by Bruce Potter. Witi Ihimaera's bestselling novel The Whale Rider is retold in a beautifully illustrated picture book format for young readers. From the time of her birth, Kahu is destined to become the leader of her tribe in the East Coast village of Whangara. But...
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  • The Last Journey
    Beautiful and heart-achingly sad animal adventure with CATS and a strong environmental message. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo, Sarah Lean and Hannah Gold's The Last Bear... ‘Captures the magic that animals bring to our lives.’ Sarah Ann Juckes, author of The Night Animals The Last Journey by Stacy Gregg is a tale of unyielding bonds and courageous adventures. Pusskin...
    By Stacy Gregg
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  • Ockham Winner
    All Her Lives
    All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture, and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother facing the cost of her son's climate rebellion, the...
    By Ingrid Horrocks
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  • Katabasis
    'Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'Katabasis is more than a novel to savor. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time' REBECCA ROSS 'A witty, gory, harrowing ride' LEIGH BARDUGO Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law...
    By R.F. Kuang
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  • What We Can Know
    From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present, and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate...
    By Ian McEwan
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  • Heart the Lover
    'You knew I'd write a book about you someday' Our narrator understands good love stories — their secrets, their highs, and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire...
    By Lily King
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  • Ockham Shortlist
    The Book of Guilt
    In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move...
    By Catherine Chidgey
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  • The Vanishing Place
    Jane Harper's Force of Nature meets the wild and atmospheric setting of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah in this twisty, stay-up-all-night thriller about family, love, and loyalty, and the fight for survival in the most beautiful but dangerous New Zealand wilderness. On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged...
    By Zoe Rankin
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  • How Will I Ever Get Through This?
    'Dr Lucy's unpacking of the grief that comes with living losses was a lightbulb moment for me.' Ellidy Pullin 'The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone's.' Martin Seligman 'Lucy's insights are practical, wise, and deeply human - they stay with you long after you read them.' Chelsea Pottenger From bestselling author and TED speaker...
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  • Clown Town
    The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen...
    By Mick Herron
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  • Endling
    An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine. Brilliant ... funny and smart, full of science, longing and adventure, all the while reminding us what the world stands to lose, and what it has already lost. This is essential reading' ANN PATCHETT A fantastic novel PERCIVAL EVERETT Heartbreaking, hilarious, profound,...
    By Maria Reva
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  • Hamnet
    THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOW A MAJOR FILM BY CHLOE ZHAO STARRING JESSIE BUCKLEY AND PAUL MESCAL 'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times 'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a...
    By Maggie O'Farrell
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    Seed
    An always hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking new novel from the publishers of Marian Keyes and Dolly Alderton. Seed is raw, hilarious and so lifelike I kept forgetting I wasn't reading about real people. I felt every frustration, every high and every low as if these women were my friends. A heartfelt, funny, unforgettable read. I loved it. - Rachael Johns Four...
    By Elisabeth Easther
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  • Ockham Shortlist
    Hoods Landing
    Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them. In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other's buttons, but know...
    By Laura Vincent
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  • Shirl's Pick
    The Black Monk
    The latest novel from Charlotte Grimshaw, best-selling author of The Mirror Book. A woman haunted by family denial, secrets and a shadowy figure . . . While her brother Cedric spirals into addiction, Alice Lidell finds herself confronted not only by his decline, but by memories of the past. From their chaotic Auckland childhood to her present day life, Alice...
    By Charlotte Grimshaw
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  • Writers & Lovers
    Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures. The New York Times Bestseller 'Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe 'Extremely funny' - Sunday...
    By Lily King
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  • Be Brave
    Be Brave
    By Barbara Dreaver
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  • Shirl's Pick Shirl's Pick
    Every Second Counts
    Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including military and political crackdowns and natural disasters. Set in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist...
    By Charlotte Glennie
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  • Lizzy's Pick Lizzy's Pick
    Kin
    A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood. Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find—smart and funny. ANN PATCHETT Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbours since earliest childhood, but are...
    By Tayari Jones
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  • New Release
    Land
    Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a family navigating a legacy of upheaval and loss with love and hope. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great...
    By Maggie O'Farrell
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  • The Marriage Portrait
    The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner, it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso...
    By Maggie O'Farrell
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  • Rejection
    ‘A thrill for the sickos among us’ JIA TOLENTINO ‘Utterly inimitable’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENT LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION An audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection...
    By Tony Tulathimutte
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  • Slow Horses
    Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 'The finest new crime series this Millennium' - Mail on Sunday Slow Horses is set in Slough House, a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations —...
    By Mick Herron
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    Banjara
    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 Banjara community, is summoned to teach a blue-eyed colonial officer the trees of her region, but instead is misled into indenture to the sugarcane plantations of Fiji. While on...
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  • Heart Lamp
    Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq's years as...
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    The Finest Hotel in Kabul
    The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world. More than fifty years on, the Inter-Continental is still standing. It has endured Soviet occupation, multiple coups, a grievous civil war, a US invasion and the rise, fall...
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  • Son of Nobody
    From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi comes a modern and imaginative retelling of the epic Trojan War. 'The past is never done with- always the song continues.' Harlow Donne has sacrificed his life to the study of the Classical world. So when he is invited to Oxford University to work on an obscure collection of papyrus...
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  • If This Be Magic
    Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? And why are Lady Macbeth's pronouns such a problem? What does it mean to translate Shakespeare? When we change all the poetry, all the...
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    Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer
    Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera – author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider – decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full-time at Te Wānanga Takiura, immersing himself in his own language, in te reo Māori. This book tells the story of this kaikaukau, this swimmer, and his year...
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    Stakes
    Read our interview with author Noelle McCarthy! A darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author’s bestselling memoir Grand. You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you. Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities...
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    Taipei Story
    TAIPEI STORY is the electrifying new novel by bestselling literary phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang, a profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes – all set against the backdrop of one unforgettable summer in Taipei. Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hungry: for family, for culture, for connection. But her summer of discovery quickly...
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    Mortified
    The hilarious and heartfelt debut book from award-winning TV writer and comedian Pax Assadi A joyfully chaotic memoir about what we gain by embracing our shameful moments, from award-winning comedian and TV writer Pax Assadi.What do we lose by hiding our shame, and what do we gain by sharing it? From herding ducks across South Auckland to catastrophic culture shock...
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  • The Blood Says Otherwise
    An absorbing true crime account of years at the frontline of crime scene reconstruction - from cold-blooded killings and gang wars to cold cases revived by a single clue. A compelling account of Ruben Miller's years working as a forensic scientist, visiting crime scenes and gathering evidence. His detailed descriptions of what he sees are often heart-breaking. The behaviour of...
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    A Different Kind of Power
    What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made...
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    The Dead Speak
    In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle one of New Zealand's most seasoned forensic investigators pulls back the police tape and walks us straight into the crime scenes. With sharp detail, he reveals how the tiniest fragment of evidence can expose a suspect, prove a motive, or confirm an identity. Sometimes, all at once. But crime scenes are...
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  • Wild Dark Shore
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore. 'At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural world, and a taut, psychological thriller, Wild Dark Shore is a triumph. Charlotte McConaghy is...
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    Lessons on Living
    Bestselling author Nigel Latta's simple psychological toolkit for life's ups and downs. Over thirty years working as a clinical psychologist, Nigel Latta assembled a personal toolkit based on three simple principles. These principles helped him to be more resilient, joyful, and attuned to what matters most. The same principles have helped him through some difficult times as well, such as...
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  • The Names
    Tomorrow - if morning comes, if the storm stops raging - Cora will register the name of her son. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she'll formalise who he will become. It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband...
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    Flesh
    From 2025 Booker Prize Winner author David Szalay comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. 'A revelatory novel' - Sunday Times 'Brilliance on every page' - Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town...
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  • Become Unstoppable
    Master your winning mindset with lessons from the life and career of coaching legend Gilbert Enoka. In a career spanning almost three decades, visionary psychological coach Gilbert Enoka changed the way the All Blacks played their game. With a 77% winning record in test match rugby, the highest of any professional sports team, they are the only international team to...
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  • Aroha
    Aroha by Dr Hinemoa Elder is an enlightening exploration of timeless Maori wisdom, intricately woven into a contemporary context. This top-selling non-fiction title from New Zealand in 2021 introduces readers to 52 traditional Maori proverbs, known as whakataukī, each offering a profound lesson for every week of the year. Dr Elder, a respected Maori psychiatrist, delves into these powerful sayings...
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  • Mana
    Mana. It's a big word. But what is it? Are you born with it, can you earn it, can it be taken away? For more than five decades, Tāme Iti has stood at the heart of Aotearoa's struggle for indigenous rights. From land marches to performance art, police raids to prison cells, his voice has challenged New Zealand to reckon...
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  • The Unlikely Doctor
    Born into love but then thrust into violence, and shaped by struggle, Timoti Te Moke was never destined to be a leader. After an early start as a bright boy in the eastern Bay of Plenty, nurtured by his reo Māori-speaking grandparents, Timoti's life changed sharply when his mother took custody of him when he was six. He survived abuse,...
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  • Big Jim Believes (Dog Man #14)
    Power up with Dog Man: Big Jim Believes from the global #1 bestselling author and award-winning artist Dav Pilkey. Join the journey as our heroes discover the influence of belief and find truth from within. With threads of self-awareness, confidence, and integrity, Dav Pilkey masterfully crafts a humorous and heartfelt adventure, weaving together the importance of truth, goodness, and believing...
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    One Last Question, Prime Minister
    From Muldoon to Luxon, untold stories from the House of Parliament Barry Soper has spent close to five decades questioning New Zealand's prime ministers.From the imposing, larger-than-life characters of Rob Muldoon and David Lange, to the golden age of Helen Clark and John Key, and the post-Covid era of Jacinda Ardern and the 'Chrises', Soper's insight and nose for a...
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    London Falling
    From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city. 'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours' - Los Angeles Times 'Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one...
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    The Valley
    It’s late 2020. Rikihana Wallace, a prolific shoplifter of no fixed abode, is back in prison with little chance of bail. Nathan Morley, unemployed, is facing burglary charges and hoping his other, as yet undetected, offences don’t catch up with him. Lewis Skerrett, their overstretched legal aid lawyer, is trying to do right by them both. The culmination of over...
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    Samoan Made Simple
    A mainstream, accessible guide to learning the Samoan language, for everyone. Fun, user-friendly and designed for modern readers, Jason Tiatia's Samoan Made Simple is a first-of-its-kind resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Samoan Language. Based on the best-selling Maori Made Easy formula, Samoan Made Simple empowers readers to take control of their learning in short, buildable...
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    Empire of AI
    An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping our planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI. When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was...
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  • Babel
    Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England...
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  • Hamnet
    Hamnet, a novel by Maggie O'Farrell, offers a poignant and immersive exploration of life, love, and loss in 16th century England. Set in Stratford-upon-Avon, the narrative beautifully intertwines the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary events, centred around a family dealing with unforeseeable grief. As the story unfolds, we follow the lives of Agnes, a woman with mystical healing powers...
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    What If You Could
    From the former prime minister of New Zealand comes a guide for teens on chasing your dreams and embracing the unexpected qualities that truly make a person strong. When Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand, she was one of the youngest people in the world leading a country. Many people thought she would never succeed — herself included....
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    The Chief and the Empire
    The Chief and the Empire uncovers the extraordinary true tale of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi - the first influential Māori leader to cross the Tasman - whose curiosity about the Pākehā world forged alliances, saved lives, and ultimately cost him his own. On a visit to Sydney in 1805, Te Pahi was feted as a celebrity, building close...
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    Yellowface
    The Number One Global Sensation Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year Amazon Book of the Year Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year Fiction Book of the Year 2024 – British Book Awards ‘Addictive’ Grazia ‘Hugely entertaining’ Observer ‘Provocative’ Mail on Sunday THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward...
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  • Mum's Busy Work
    An inspiring and heartwarming book about the relationship between a working mum and her daughter by the former prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.Today I got out of bed and asked Mumwhat day it was. 'Monday,' she said.I asked if that was a day care day.She said yes. I stomped my feet. Even though day care is fun, it’s...
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  • Goliath’s Curse
    Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp offers a radical retelling of human history through the lens of collapse, delving into what this means for our uncertain future. This narrative spans from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. It's grounded in the latest research and a comprehensive database of more than 440...
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    Night, Ma
    For three and a half years, calamities hit Elizabeth Knox and family in rapid succession. Her sister suffered a psychotic break and was hospitalised against her will, her husband’s brother died by violence, and her mother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.  In time, she was able to write about it. Night, Ma is a book about the net of...
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    Song of the Saltings
    On the isolated island of Brack, the people live by an ancient bargain: every year, a sacrifice must be made to the Glimm, the creature that haunts the salt marshes. Eight years ago, it should have taken Lotta. Instead, the monster spared her and claimed her pony, shattering tradition and anointing her both folk hero and object of suspicion. Now...
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  • Sisters in Yellow
    From the International Booker Prize Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light...
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  • The Poppy War Boxset
    Dive into the immersive world of R.F. Kuang's critically acclaimed historical military fantasy trilogy with The Poppy War Boxset, which comprises the gripping novels The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God. Inspired by the tumultuous history of China's twentieth century, these novels weave a narrative tapestry rich with treachery, magic, and exhilarating warfare. This comprehensive boxset comes...
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  • The Migrants
    A brilliant memoir of adolescence in New Zealand and of the migration of European manuscripts to the far side of the world. Christopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family moved when he was four. This book magically evokes...
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    He Puawai
    Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for studies of flower biology and a vibrant wonderland of gardens and bush for Māori and Pākehā to enjoy. He Puawai is a natural...
    By Philip Garnock-Jones
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  • Rich Enough?
    A revised and updated edition of the no.1 bestseller. Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier; it can actually make you richer. Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a house or be happy not buying one, and move...
    By Mary Holm
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  • Everything But the Medicine
    Wise, candid, brave and moving, this superbly written memoir by a New Zealand GP is reminiscent of the warm wisdom and humanity of the American physician and writer Atul Gawande. Over her long career, Dr Lucy O’Hagan has developed deep insights into the profound but often complex relationship between patients and doctors. Reading about her own struggle with what it...
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  • The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin
    The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend. Australia, 1901. Just twenty years old and the daughter of struggling bush farmers, Miles Franklin pulls off the impossible—publishing My Brilliant Career, a fiery, fearless debut that takes the English-speaking world by storm. She hides behind a male pseudonym, but when her true identity is revealed, the backlash is swift and...
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  • Resilient Grieving
    Hone shows us how to harness the (thankfully common) power of our own resilience to work our way through a horrible loss. The New York Times A recommended new book for those who are grieving... [Hone's] metaphor for life after loss is both powerful and apt: Think of it as a scattered jigsaw puzzle, where the pieces of one's former...
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    Lonasei and the Mystery of Origin Grove
    Eleven-year-old Lonasei is lonely — she wishes her older sister Eva Grace wasn't so mean, and that her mum Aria didn't have to work so much. But when Aria inherits her childhood home, Lonasei discovers she can enter her late Aunt Malia's paintings and experience the memories within. Through them, she discovers that her mother had another sister, Agnes, who went...
    By Kenneth Chapman
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  • Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
    Excellent...entrancing and disturbing. The New York Times One of the world's best investigative journalists tells the true story of Chinese twins forcibly separated as babies through adoption trafficking, raised on opposite sides of the globe and only reunited as teens. In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government...
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  • Tragedy at Pike River Mine
    Updated Edition 2025 This new edition contains a completely up-to-date timeline. Winner of four major awards.Brilliantly written by award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie. 'Devastating account of a needless tragedy' - Otago Daily Times'Lucid, exhaustive, enraging' - New Zealand Listener'Compelling account of what went wrong' - Weekend Herald'Highly readable, sometimes shocking' - The Press'Compulsory reading for directors, managers and business students' -...
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  • Nine Girls
    Nine Girls is a page-turning adventure from Stacy Gregg, one of Aotearoa's most internationally successful and locally awarded writers. An epic story woven with suspense by Pony Club Secrets and The Princess and the Foal author Stacy Gregg - winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction! They dug a hole...
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  • Wawata - Moon Dreaming
    Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Dr Hinemoa Elder invites readers on a transformative journey through the ancient wisdom of the Māori lunar calendar. This deeply insightful book introduces you to Hina, the Māori moon goddess, who reveals a different face each night of the month, bringing with her unique energies and lessons. Dr Elder, known for her bestselling work Aroha,...
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  • The Burning God
    The thrilling conclusion to R.F. Kuang's acclaimed and award-winning Poppy War trilogy, The Burning God, presents a masterful blend of 20th-century Chinese history, mythology, and compelling world-building. This epic fantasy takes readers on a breathtaking journey through a land ravaged by war, where gods and monsters battle alongside mortals in an unforgettable tale of power, betrayal, and redemption. After heroically...
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  • Dear Moko
    Māori child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder has shaped her beloved book Aroha into this special collection of whakataukī and whakatauakī for mokopuna of all ages. Bestselling author of Aroha and respected Māori psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder has written a special collection of whakataukī for tamariki mokopuna. Puanga kai rau. Puanga, the star signalling a time of the year...
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    The Raven's Eye Rebellion
    When Getwin, Lea and Buckle—with the help of Sharp the raven—unearth the trickster Book of Blacke, they embark on a quest to undo the controls on their world, seeking justice for the Scribes who are forced to work and for those who have never been allowed to read or write. The city of Wyle comes alive with danger and intrigue...
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    Katabasis
    Katabasis is a formidable, timeless work, destined to be a modern classic. – OLIVIE BLAKE Katabasis is more than a novel to savour. This book is an experience. I envy those who get to read it for the first time. – REBECCA ROSS A witty, gory, harrowing ride. – LEIGH BARDUGO Only available in select territories. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek....
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  • The Mushroom Tapes
    The Mushroom Tapes brings together three renowned writers of true crime: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein. For this extraordinary book, the lone wolves became a team. Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein tracked Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial, joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, slept over in Morwell and spent countless hours in fervent discussion of...
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  • Aroha - Te reo Māori edition
    Dr Hinemoa Elder's bestselling Aroha, translated into te reo Māori. Published in collaboration with Kotahi Rau Pukapuka. Kia ora. Nau mai ki Aroha. He mātāpono tenei mea, te aroha, no te ao Māori, no mai ano. He taonga te aroha no te whatumanawa, e rongo ai te tangata i te hononga ki te ao wairua, ki te ao kikokiko, ki...
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  • The Whale Rider
    A classic novel that became a classic film. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low...
    By Witi Ihimaera
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  • A Maori Word a Day
    A Maori Word a Day by Hemi Kelly is an incredibly accessible and engaging resource designed to introduce and immerse New Zealanders of all ages into the beauty of the Maori language. This book acts as a unique and practical Maori dictionary that simplifies the learning process by presenting 365 carefully selected Maori words, each to be explored and learned...
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  • Axeman's Carnival (B-Format)
    Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is...
    By Catherine Chidgey
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  • The Dragon Republic
    The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang is a masterful continuation of the epic saga that began with 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut, The Poppy War. Set in a richly detailed and meticulously crafted world, this searing sequel delves deeper into the tumultuous landscape of war, magic, and politics. After the devastating events of her past, Rin is a fugitive, haunted...
    By R.F. Kuang
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  • New Release
    The Destiny of Dragons
    Dragonkind is FREE! Free from the terror of the Blade Wolf. Free to fly the skies and roam across the land.Firefly dragon sisters Dessa and Sacha could not be happier. For them, this is a dream come true. Their happiness is shared by all the other dragons. . . Well almost.Stormy may be the king of the Cliff dragons now,...
    By Sarina Clark
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