Pre-order

Rangatira

Name: Rangatira
Brand: Unknown
SKU: 9781869409159
Price: 36.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

He Purakau

By Paula Morris

0.0 (0 reviews)

Brief Description

Format: Paperback / softback

$36⁹⁹

Elsewhere:

~~$39⁹⁹~~

Pre-order

Releases 8^th October 2026 (Approx. Date) Pre-order "Rangatira" now to secure your copy from our first shipment

Found a better price? Request a price match

Rangatira

$36⁹⁹

Elsewhere:

~~$39⁹⁹~~

He pukapuka hītori i whakawhiwhia ki ngā tini tohu – kua whakaputaina ki te reo Māori.

An award-winning historical novel – now published in te reo Māori.

Description

‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te aha, kua whai reo anō te rangatira rā e tūturu ana, e mārama ana hoki. I tino hākoakoa te ngākau i tēnei pukapuka, ā, ka kaha tūtohua ki ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Ko Rangatira, he pukapuka nā Paula Morris, te toa o te New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction i te tau 2012. Koia tētahi o ngā pukapuka hirahira rawa atu o Aotearoa, ā, kua whakamāoritia tuatahitia nei e Hinewai Pōmare.

‘He pukapuka tēnei kua āta whakairotia . . . Kua eke mārire te whakaahuatanga mai o Paratene ki te taumata, ko tana reo he hūmārie, he tūturu mārika anō hoki.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener

‘This is an intriguing and engrossing novel that vividly brings to life colonial New Zealand and Victorian England through the eyes of a Ngāti Wai rangatira. Paula Morris has done an extraordinary job in capturing the life of her tupuna, Paratene Te Manu, and gives him a voice that is at once authentic and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to all New Zealanders.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction in 2012, Paula Morris’s Rangatira is one of the great New Zealand novels, here translated into te reo Māori for the first time by Hinewai Pōmare.

‘[An] adroitly told historical novel . . . Paratene [is] a triumph of characterisation, his voice genial and flawlessly authentic.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781869409159

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 October 2026

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Auckland University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 0g

Pages: 88

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Published Pre-order Books Pre-order General Fiction Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date

About the Author

He kaituhi i te pukapuka, i te pakiwaitara poto, i te tuhinga roa hoki a Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Manuhiri), ā, kua whakawhiwhia ia ki ngā tini tohu.

Tekau ngā tau i mahi ai a Paula i Rānana me Niu Ioka, tuatahi ake hei kaiwhakatairanga, hei kaiārahi kamupene hoki i roto i te ao puoro. Kātahi ia ka tahuri ki te mahi hei mātanga waitohu, hei kaituhituhi rauemi whakatairanga hoki.

Kua whakawhiwhia a Paula ki ētahi tohu mātauranga nō ētahi whare wānanga o Aotearoa, o Ingarangi, o Amerika hoki, tae atu rā ki te tohu tākutatanga nō te Whare Wānanga o Ioka, me tētahi tohu MFA nō te Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Ka whakahaere ia i te hōtaka Master of Creative Writing i Waipapa Taumata Rau.

Nāna i whakatū a Te Whare Mātātuhi o Aotearoa me Wharerangi, te whārangi ipurangi mō ngā kaituhi Māori. He mema ia nō ngā poari o New Zealand Book Awards Trust, o Crystal Arts Trust me Mātātuhi Foundation.

He maha ngā karahipi tūranga ā-ao i whakawhiwhia ki a ia, pērā i te Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, ā, i te tau 2019 i whakahōnorehia ia hei mema mō Te Kāhui Tohu Hiranga, i āna mahi e hāngai ana ki te ao mātātuhi.

He uri a Hinewai Pōmare nō Te Rarawa, nō Ngā Puhi, nō Ngāti Pūkenga, nō Ngāi Te Rangi me te iwi Tarara. Kua whakawhiwhia ia ki ētahi tohu mātauranga mō te hauora, mō te pūtaiao, mō te pakihi hoki nō Waipapa Taumata Rau, nō Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau, nō Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, nō Te Herenga Waka hoki, ā, he Ika ā-Whiro ia nō Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo. Ko ia te kaiwhakahaere ā-rohe mō te raki ki Te Hiringa Hauora, ā, ko āna kaupapa matua ko te mana taurite o te ao hauora, ko te kaiārahitanga, me ngā pūnaha hauora. Kua riro i a Hinewai tana raihana whakawhiti reo ā-tuhi, ā-waha anō hoki.

More from General Fiction

View all

The Wedding People

'BEST READ OF THE YEAR SO FAR' THE TIMES 'BOOKS AS FUN AS THIS ONE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN' GUARDIAN Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people — but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall...

By Alison Espach

Paperback

$23⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

(3)

In Stock
Ships today
Throne of Glass Box Set (Paperback)

Enter the realm. Unleash the darkness. Live the legend. Discover the worldwide phenomenon of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Throne of Glass series in this gorgeous 8-book box set! In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not...

By Sarah J. Maas

Set

$124⁰⁰
Elsewhere:
~~$155⁰⁰~~

(6)

In Stock
Ships today
The Goal

Welcome to Briar U!Get ready for your newest obsession . . . Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy!Read The Goal now for the perfect forced proximity romance! She's good at achieving her goals . . . College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick...

By Elle Kennedy

Paperback

$24⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today
The Score

Welcome to Briar U! Get ready for your newest obsession... Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy! Read The Score now for the perfect friends with benefits romance! He knows how to score, on and off the ice... Allie Hayes is in crisis mode. With graduation looming, she still doesn't have...

By Elle Kennedy

Paperback

$24⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today
New Release

The Ballad of Falling Dragons [Special Deluxe edition]

The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched continues with the second book in The Moonfall Series, The Ballad of Falling Dragons… Raeve’s thirst for vengeance continues to burn, as does her love for Kaan Vaegor – a staunch beacon from a past she’s yet to face. With Rekk’s blood still fresh on her hands, she learns the...

By Sarah A. Parker

Hardback

$59⁹⁹

In Stock
Ships today
Dylan's Pick

Theo of Golden

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.' One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from…His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance –...

By Allen Levi

Paperback

$28⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$34⁹⁹~~

(5)

In Stock
Ships today
The Mistake

Welcome to Briar U! Get ready for your newest obsession . . . Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy! Read The Mistake now for the perfect second chance romance! He's a player in more ways than one . . . College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants....

By Elle Kennedy

Paperback

$24⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today
Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, the SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of The Martian, offers a gripping new adventure in hard science fiction. With endorsement from notable figures such as Barack Obama and a slew of five-star reviews, this novel promises a thrilling and intellectually stimulating journey. Ryland Grace, a lone astronaut, finds himself on a...

By Andy Weir

Paperback

$23⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$24⁰⁰~~

(4)

In Stock
Ships today
New Release

On Mystic Lake

One of the greatest storytellers of our time - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school in England. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Left alone in the beautiful California house which was once a home, Annie...

By Kristin Hannah

Paperback

$31⁰⁰
Elsewhere:
~~$38⁰⁰~~

In Stock
Ships today
The Legacy

Welcome to Briar U! Get ready for your newest obsession . . . Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from the Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy! Read The Legacy now for the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now? Four stories. Four couples. Three years of real life after graduation . . . A wedding....

By Elle Kennedy

Paperback

$24⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today
The Deal

Welcome to Briar U! Get ready for your newest obsession . . . Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy! Read The Deal now for the perfect fake-dating romance! She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy . . . Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns...

By Elle Kennedy

Paperback

$24⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$27⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today
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

Paperback

$31⁹⁹
Elsewhere:
~~$37⁹⁹~~

In Stock
Ships today

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 100,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.