Author: Vanya Insull

Trifle just got even better with this delicious, brownie trifle recipe. Just the thing for Christmas Day, or any day really!

August 2023 release

Author: Luke Smythe. Reviewer: Peter Simpson.

‘Albrecht, who turns 80 this year, has had a consistently productive and successful career now stretching across six decades … a feast for eye and mind.’

November 2023 release

Author: Alby Hailes

Festive and fabulous — step aside pavlova, trifle, meringues and all the other usual suspects. Bake and take this recipe for the king of all party cakes to your summer season parties!

August 2023 release

Author: Kelly Gibney

If there’s no kiwi onion dip, is it really a party? Try out Kelly Gibney’s twist on the kiwi classic — just in time for summer soirees. Delicious (and gluten and nut free)!

September 2023 release

Author: Dame Anne Salmond. Reviewer: David Veart.

‘When we are yet again debating the modern meaning of Te Tiriti, with questions on Māori representation on councils, co-governance and suggestions of  a referendum on the future of our ‘founding document.’ Against all this Dame Anne Salmond’s latest book presents a more nuanced point of view …’

November 2023 release

Author: Rebecca Priestley. Reviewer: Sam Finnemore.

Priestley’s new memoir explores the complications of living in a world under threat across two parallel timelines. Her primary, present-tense narrative is a road trip down the South Island West Coast in the company of her lifelong friend Maz in the winter of 2021 – almost a whistlestop tour of various aspects of climate crisis … Interleaved with the weeklong road trip, in the past tense, are the experiences of teenaged Rebecca and Maz in the 1980s...’

October 2023 release

Author: Siobhan Harvey. Editor: Lynley Edmeades.

‘Beautifully crafted and timely comment on prejudice against the LGBTQIA+ community … Harvey holds this contemporary issue in view while also weaving in her own story, one ultimately fraught with a failure to be accepted into her family.’ — Lynley Edmeades.

November 2023 release

Author: Ryan Bodman. Reviewer: Michael Burgess

‘Bodman makes us realise that rugby league has done well to survive, let alone thrive. The fact it is ensconced as a popular sport in this country is something of a miracle, given the efforts of rugby union over almost a century to stamp it out.’

October 2023 release

Author/illustrator: Ned Barraud with Andrew Stewart. Reviewer Alex Eagles.

‘For almost 50 years, ‘the Jaws effect’ has resulted in what psychologists have termed galeophobia — an irrational fear of sharks. Even though statistics show driving to the beach is far more likely to result in injury…’ Alex Eagles reviews this celebration of mangō and whai for young New Zealanders and joins the authors in encouraging others to admire these amazing animals.

October 2023 release

Editors: Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa and Rachel Yates. Reviewer: Linda Herrick.

‘Flora, Te Papa’s showcase of botanical art from its collections, is huge, sumptuous and gorgeous.’

November 2023 release

Authors: Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings. Reviewer: Greg Fleming.

‘…a brilliantly researched and compelling look at one of our most significant unsolved cases, one that also gives readers a fascinating peek into our cultural and legal history.’

November 2023 release

Authors: Brendan Graham with Jock Phillips. Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand.

Cover story: Our Land in Colour is the August winner of Kete’s look at book covers. A history book like no other, it uses 200 photographs expertly colourised by Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips, to tell a story of Aotearoa.

August 2023 release

Editors: Mark Amery, Amber Clausner & Sophie Jerram. Reviewer: Graham Reid.

‘…this is a lively, readable, thought-provoking and occasionally funny account of the central and important subject matter: Art that doesn't just “raise questions” but frequently posits answers.’

October 2023 release

Author: Ray Salisbury. Publisher: Wendy Pye Publishing Ltd.

‘Vintage Aviators evokes superlatives. Not just the subject matter but the whole physical object. It’s a beautiful amalgam of all that is best in modern photography, printing and bookbinding technology. ’

November 2023 release

Editors: Chris Bickell, Vanessa Manhire & Nonnita Rees. Reviewer: John Smythe.

‘Given Robert never got round to writing the book about New Zealand and his life, Robert Lord Diaries fills the bill in ways that are sometimes tantalising, making this reader feel like a director or actor, seeking clarity and deeper truths in the subtext, and prompting further searches via the internet which Robert never got to experience. As such it is informative, evocative and curiously engaging.’

October 2023 release

Author: Robert Vennell. Reviewer: Alex Eagles.

‘The latest book from bestselling natural history author Robert Vennell is a fantasy foray through the forests of Aotearoa, full of fascinating facts about fungi, lichens, liverworts, mosses and slithery slime moulds.’

September 2023 release

Author: Henrietta Bollinger. Reviewer: Elizabeth Heritage.

‘Articulations is a collection of Bollinger’s essays, many of which were originally published in Salient as the column they established there, Token Cripple. It’s relatively short, 131 pages with 19 chapters spaciously typeset. Bollinger has said they hoped to make it small and light enough to take to a café to read. This is indeed what I did and recommend doing.’

September 2023 release

Author: Gavin Conroy. Reviewer: David Christian.

‘Vintage Aviators evokes superlatives. Not just the subject matter but the whole physical object. It’s a beautiful amalgam of all that is best in modern photography, printing and bookbinding technology. ’

September 2023 release

Author: Gregory O’Brien. Reviewer: Peter Simpsom.

‘Hot on the heels of Francis Pound’s great book on Gordon Walters, Auckland University Press has published another superb art historical monograph, this time on Don Binney, a comparably significant figure in New Zealand art history, by writer and art historian Gregory O’Brien.’

October 2023 release

Author: Bryce Langston. Publisher: Potton & Burton.

Living Big in a Tiny House is a book about the big world of tiny houses, exploring small space design from Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world.

October 2023 release