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For three and a half years, calamities hit Elizabeth Knox and family in rapid succession. Her sister suffered a psychotic break and was hospitalised against her will, her husband’s brother died by violence, and her mother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.In time, she was able to write abou...

Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption."I heard someone say, 'Wow!' And someone else exclaimed, 'Look at that!' I had my back to the crater. I tur...

From drug dealer to don. an unforgettable story of redemption and reinvention from New Zealand's leading criminologist.Growing up in 1950s Auckland, Greg Newbold's early years were marked by order and chaos in equal measure, as his stable childhood later became transformed by his mother's alcoholism...

Absorbing true crime account of years at the frontline of crime scene reconstruction - from cold-blooded killings and gang wars to cold cases revived by a single clue.A compelling account of Ruben Miller's years working as a forensic scientist, visiting crime scenes and gathering evidence. His detai...

Every Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including political crackdowns and natural disaster...

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend.Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms and on...

Te Papa holds New Zealand’s national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the Dominion and then the National Museum). Built up over the years by a succession of directors and curators, the collection’s 40,000 works track New Zea...

With a career that spans investigating murders at Scotland Yard to identifying bodies after global disasters, one of NZ's leading forensic scientists takes us behind the tape of a lifetime of working on crime scenes.In this empathetic and darkly funny memoir, Thomas Coyle - one of New Zealand's most...

Discover the man behind the magic as rugby league sensation Shaun Johnson tells the story of his life on and off the field for the very first time in his own words.'For 14 years I was judged on 80 minutes of my life, once a week. That's it. it's how I judged myself. Eighty damn minutes of footy. It...

ZEST is a personal account of how we can seek meaning and joy by facing and accepting our imperfections. Daniel, a Wellington King’s Counsel, describes his journey of depression with humour, wisdom, and philosophy — he sought more than wellness platitudes to manage these struggles. His book conn...

The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand.Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worke...

Tamaki Makaurau is a city in flux. Its people and places are in constant state of change as they evolve into the millennium. To capture a sliver of Auckland in time, this collection offers space for twelve distinct voices from across the isthmus to share personal reflections, pulling from the past t...

Paul Monin is Waiheke’s best-known historian, and his third history of Waiheke is the most comprehensive yet. When Paul first visited Waiheke in 1973 he was drawn to its beauty and rich backstory which has left so many traces on the island’s rolling landscape. There are more than forty pā sites...

The history of New Zealand explained through powerful beliefs and the people who held them.In this major work, one of our leading historians ofers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pākehā settlers – nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism – encountered...

When Thomas Cheeseman arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1853 at the age of eight, the world outside knew little of this country’s people, plants, animals and environment. Within weeks, he began a lifelong love of collecting and classifying, and by his early twenties he was making waves in colonia...

In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner-city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south. Updated regularly over the next 10 years, it detailed hotels, theatres, oys...

‘The problems we face..are a consequence of the economic model we have built up in Aotearoa over the past forty years. But that model is a choice – one that we can change if we wish to.’’Aotearoa New Zealand is grappling with tough economic challenges. In , economist Craig Renney asks what k...

‘There is little more important to the success of the human species than the trust that allows information networks to form and thrive, communities to share and trade, and people to see the world as it really is.’Award-winning journalist Tim Watkin confronts the breakdown in trust between journa...

The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire. In fewer than forty years, less than a lifetime, Aotearoa had gone from being a Māori world in which rangatira dominated, to a colony in which the settler state...

Issue 003 includes:Cover and essay featuring Australia’s Kirsha Kaechele, exploring ego destruction through ayahuasca and online trolling.Interview and art by Australian Alina Gozin’a, exploring creative intelligence.Interview with New Zealand Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank, about why the N...

HĀ - To breath (noun) Essence (Verb) TUA - Beyond something (locative).HĀ TUA Magazine is a publication made in Aotearoa, New Zealand.Combined HĀ TUA is about moving beyond the breath, giving life to everyday stories while acknowledging we are the constant extension of those who have come before...

‘She drinks coffee until she can drink wine and then she goes to sleep so that she can wake up and drink coffee until she can drink wine again. Is this not the story of every mother, she asks herself.’a compelling and beautifully written meditation on early motherhood and creativity. Told throug...

‘In 1642 Māori discovered Europe.’Vincent O’Malley’s account of the first meeting between Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri and Abel Tasman’s crew sets the scene for how two peoples navigated fraught beginnings to find a ‘meeting place’ in pre-Treaty Aotearoa.Dr O’Malley tells the story of enco...

An entertaining history of rural life in Aotearoa, told through artefacts, gadgets and ephemera that tell a story that goes deeper than the objects themselves.The most fun you'll ever have learning about rural life in New Zealand. Told through a varied selection of items from the everyday (apples, R...