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Featuring elderly lesbians, twins who aren’t twins, and several dogs named Roger, Hoods Landing is about shoddy pasts, ambiguous futures and the imperfect bonds that tie family together.This is the debut book and literary fiction of local and long-time crush of ours, Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) who is a writer, blogger, novelist and poet.

Another banger from young, Māori, Wellington award-winning author Tayi Tibble. She is known for her combination of irreverence, activism, power and love of popular culture that has depth, darkness and sensuality.This book is a combination of poetry and short storiesvThe book talks about whakamā, w...

Welcoming Jordan Rondel aka "The Caker"s recipe book!Sunday Baking No.3 is a beautifully thread-bound book. It containing 40 recipies divided into cakes, cookies and all things desserts!There is a mix of gluten free, vegan, and indulgent recipes.

A beautiful verse novel / poetry book by Rubby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) who is a writer, musician and taonga pūoro practitioner living in Pōneke.The Artist brings to life the histories of our great Southern iwi through the whakapapa of its characters and the rich world they and the...

With an uneasy grace, these poems explore questions of love, gender, family, friendship and politics. They visit a childhood playground in a storm, women painted on the walls of churches, and the fjords and riot grrrls of author Hannah Mettner’s history. They are woven through with blackberry and ...

We've been long time fans of Jessica Hinerangi for a while because of her beautiful art and great instagram. Now this poet, illustrator and journalist has made her first publication; Āria. Dedicated to those with whakamā about being disconnected with language and knowledge from their tūpuna.

Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Māori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Māori. The writers range from famous names and award winners and fill 270 pages.What I love about this publication is that each piece has an introduction to each...

After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldnt be less of a woman prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her...

Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa), a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration of people and place. This book brings together a breathtaking range of his projects, from conc...

This volume collects a number of Hana Pera Aoake's provocative texts about what it means to be Māori in the 21st Century.This book is brought to life by special use of the mid-20th Century typefaces designed by Samoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward.A great book of thoughtful prose and design!- A5- Made very slowly, being bound by hand in Auckland.

The publishing house 5ever Books presents Te Waka Hourua's own account of their treaty redaction at Te Papa in December 2023. This book authored by the artists themselves is a first-hand recollection and reflection of their experience, complemented with some memorabilia of the action, and its impact...

Vultures is about womanhood, about dirt and queerness and heartbreak and love and a dark lake at night. It’s about a girl, a god, and a glow in the dark statue of the virgin mary with a busted nose. It's a gritty celebration of queer love. It’s about religious shame, loss and redemption. A story of girls gone missing at the marsh, and finding themselves at the bottom of it.- A5

From ancient whatu kākahu to contemporary installation art, Frances Hodgkins to Merata Mita, Fiona Clark to Mataaho Collective, Sight Lines tells the story of art made by women in Aotearoa.Gathered here are painters, photographers, performers, sculptors, weavers, textile artists, poets and activist...

Tusitala is the debut poetry collection of Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson, known for their work with Tagata Atamai which aims to amplify the voices of the Moana through community, culture and creativity.Dani says this book was written for "the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who...

For many, education is synonymous with uniforms and tote trays, assemblies and sports days. The cool terraces of a lecture theatre; the rotating team of tutors. But another form of education has always existed, and continues in Aotearoa today: teaching that is grounded in relationships, and learning...

Working across painting, drawing and sculpture, Ayesha Green (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Kāi Tahu) examines histories of Māori and Pākehā representation. Green’s work focuses on imagery where intercultural relationships intersect, overlap or diverge—from Māori pūrākau, such as the se...

Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the new collection by Ōtepoti poet and writer Emma Neale, is fascinated by our doubleness. Prompted by the rich implications in a line from Joseph Brodsky — ‘The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie’ — it combines a personal memoir of childhood...

In Mad Diva, poet Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a scintillating whirl of ideas, experiences and imagery. Operatic in scale, by turns lush and spare, Mad Diva is a high-wire performance from an extraordinary emerging talent. This beautifully crafted collection confronts the chaos...

Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’t, their lives will be somehow ‘less than’.Otherhood’s essays are by writers who’ve felt on the outside l...