All books

Gerald Hensley
An insider account of New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy and the unravelling of the ANZUS alliance.  >>

David Craig & Gregory O’Brien
The work of potter, artist, craftsperson, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell.  >>

Ian Wedde
The lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over this collection by poet laureate Ian Wedde.  >>

Elizabeth Smither
A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A bee released  >>

Jarrod Gilbert
Covering bikie gangs and skinheads, the Mongrel Mob and Black Power, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand.  >>

David Hastings
The story of the newspaper wars of nineteenth-century Auckland – who made the news and which papers would live or die?  >>

C. K. Stead
From his green enclave and ‘avid for copy’, this poet is singing still – but also considering the acceptance of silence.  >>

Peter Holland
A major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand.  >>

Edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
A defining collection of our literary heritage, ranging across novels and stories, poems and plays, letters and diaries, comics and songs.  >>

Felicity Barnes
Antipodean soldiers and writers, meat carcasses and moa, British films and Kiwi tourists: all of these things have gone back and forth from New Zealand to London.  >>

Allan Bollard, with Sarah Gaitanos
Crisis was a first-hand account of the global financial and economic meltdown. This new edition brings the story up to date.  >>

Albert Wendt
Ultimately a book about ageing and the consideration of death, this collection moves from the warm valley winds of Hawai‘i to the seasons of a garden in Auckland.  >>

Rebecca Priestley
New Zealand is known around the world for our nuclear-free stance. But have we always been nuclear sceptics?  >>

Jacqueline Fahey
In her first memoir, Jacqueline Fahey ended the story at her marriage to Fraser McDonald. Here she continues from that moment, charting her life since 1960.  >>

Janet Charman
Set on the cusp of the 1970s–80s, these poems centre on the disorienting experiences of a young woman newly arrived in London.  >>

Ron Palenski
An account of how transplanted Britons and others turned themselves into New Zealanders, a distinct group of people with their own sense of self.  >>

Julia Gatley
This landmark book introduces a major body of architecture that will lead readers through modernism, postmodernism and beyond.  >>

Ron Paterson
What makes a good doctor? Are there bad doctors out there? If so how do we protect patients from them?  >>