Sample the latest books from Aotearoa with these exclusive extracts.
Whakamātauria ngā pukapuka hou nō Aotearoa mā ēnei tīpakohanga motuhake.
Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic C.K Stead combines essays, short stories, blogs, reviews and an 'approximation' of a play first written in French by Racine into one fascinating collection to provoke, delight and stimulate.
'What if the dead - our dead - never feel to us that they have gone? If family stories, fragments of their lives, continue to nag and haunt us? Lily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman's growing years...'
'Grandma had won the Best Cupcake ribbon four times prior to last year. Before that she’d won the Best Fruit Cake category for six years...'
An excerpt from 'Fish over Mākara', a short story included in Janis Freegard's new collection Wild, Wild Women, published by AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU, shared with kind permission.
We peek into the world of the law, surrogacy and adoption in this excerpt from Karen Zelas' SAFEKEEPING, her second Rebecca Eaton novel, a contemporary legal drama published by Quentin Wilson Publishing.
Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a Levin farmer, photographer, geologist, ethnologist and explorer, a gifted amateur and renaissance man, of sorts, who used photography to document his scholarly interests, farming activities and family life. McCredie’s substantial text gives rich insights into the varied elements of Adkin’s very busy life, including his love for his wife Maud, captured over the years in a range of intimate and engaging images which feel as fresh as when they were first taken...
Tina Shaw's award-winning novel A HOUSE BUILT ON SAND, which won the Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel in 2023, was released at the end of July and is an exploration of memory, secrets and family ghosts. Text Publishing have kindly given us permission to publish this opening extract from the book.
How many of us would like to throw in the day job, and move to France? Maria Hoyle did just that, and Kete is delighted to share this extract from her memoir, published this month by Allen & Unwin.
Sam Shepherd is back! Vanda Symon's newest release, PREY, returns the reader to Sam's world post-maternity leave, investigating a long-unsolved murder of a well-respected church leader.
Seriously Delicious is the much-awaited follow up to cookbook Miss Polly's Kitchen. Miss Polly is back! We share this delightful icecream terrine extract thanks to publisher Allen & Unwin.
Sarah Beck writes about her self-imposed exile from Aotearoa New Zealand and her return fifty years later in her new memoir. As the daughter of writer and publisher Dame Chris Cole-Catley, she details her ambivalent relationship with her mother, and wonders if she would have published this memoir.
'Some others we hadn’t personally dealt with, but the details of their crimes were now in our databases. We could study their behaviour and know our enemy...'
'Could the guy she loves to hate turn out to be her perfect pairing? If Shelby Armstrong wants to keep her late father's beloved Flora Valley Wines in business, she'll have to listen to Nathan Durant's advice...'
The Living Wage means thriving, not just surviving. Lyndy McIntyre’s Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. The living wage movement is grounded in the fundamental belief that all New Zealanders should be paid enough to meet their needs, enjoy their lives and participate in society.
'We would suggest a rescue or animal shelter, where there are dogs that desperately need homes. There are already so many dogs in the world, so it makes sense to us to take in a rescue dog...'
Eat Pacific includes 139 zesty recipes from Fiji, Samoa, the Kingdom of Tonga, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea, taken from the popular TV series Pacific Island Food Revolution. Try this stunning recipe for Heimata Hall’s Ipo Pain Perdu (Ipo French Toast)!
We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable. But amongst those well-behaved rhythms hide other phenomena, pulsing and fizzing and refusing to play by the same rules.
In the shape of his hand lay a river is Iona Winter's fourth collection, and part of a body of work written after her son, prolific musician, Reuben Winter took his life. Here, through a poetic lens, she asks unanswerable questions, while embodying a multiplicity of emotions, and we are called to look at the ineffable absence of a beloved child.
89 days of travel, 33 trains, 19 countries … read an extract from the Central Russian segment of Gregory Hill’s epic rail journey.
This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour became a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy.
In early 2020 Sharland was nearing the end of a 17-year adventure in Aotearoa. A desire to return to family and the familiar was pulling her back to her homeland, England. When Covid put an end to her travel plans, she found herself facing isolation in Manawatu instead.
In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her dreams. To them, she is just a show-off, always getting into trouble, talking back and running away…
Author: Madeleine and Rosie Redding Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing ‘Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie's parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism…’
Andrew and his girlfriend Jess are making a life for themselves in London, but it's a bit of a grind, and now their relationship is beginning to suffer. Andrew's best friend Jaryd on the other hand is living every young man's dream - a beautiful apartment in Paris, a happy relationship with the lovely Liv, and a business venture gone global.
In this new edition of his standard biography, Keith Newman reveals the life and times of Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana and the movement he founded in 1918, tracing its activities and influence up to the present-day community of some 50,000 followers.