Tina Makereti

Longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards A tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don’t understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect? Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars...

A collection to be savoured. A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, and a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak, or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp, and funny 21st-century stories of Maori...

From an early age, James Poneke has had to play a role to survive. But what of the real James? While exhibited as a curiosity, a Māori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I...

It's not beautiful, not at all, when it's there in front of you, but writing transforms. Makereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow, she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in...