ArchitectureArtDesignFictionIllustratedMāoriNonfiction

Little Doomsdays
by Nic Low and Phil Dadson

An 'engaging, inventive and original' book about arks that can withstand catastrophes.

Ian WeddeSeptember 22, 2023

ArtBiographyIllustratedNonfiction

Gordon Walters
by Francis Pound

An impressive monograph that is 'forensic in detail and fearsome in ambition'.

Hamish ConeySeptember 15, 2023

FictionLiterary FictionShort Stories

Signs of Life
by Amy Head

A story collection set in an unsettled Christchurch

Elizabeth EngledowSeptember 6, 2023

EssaysNonfiction

Strong Words 3
ed. Lynley Edmeades and Emma Neale

Nineteen thought-provoking essays from the best of the Landfall essay competition.

Erica StrettonSeptember 1, 2023

FictionGraphic novelYA

Tsunami
by Ned Wenlock

A debut graphic novel 'explores the tumultuous pre-teen world'.

Ant SangAugust 30, 2023

IllustratedLiteratureMemoirNonfictionPoetryTravel

Walking with Rocks, Dreaming with Rivers
by Richard von Sturmer

An illustrated ‘poetic exploration' of Waikato and a Covid-era 'eerie, nearly-hallucinogenic world'.

Terry MoyleAugust 25, 2023

FictionLiterary FictionMāoriNovel

The Bone Tree
by Airana Ngarewa

'Big things happen' in a dark debut novel set in Taranaki.

Kelly Ana MoreyAugust 18, 2023

AnthologyFictionMāoriShort Stories

Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories
edited by Paula Morris

A new fiction anthology is a 'celebration of the sheer talent of Māori writers'.

Deborah Walker-MorrisonAugust 18, 2023

HistoryLiteratureMilitaryNonfictionPolitics

John Mulgan and the Greek Left
by C.-Dimitris Gounelas and Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

An investigation into the mysterious death of a New Zealander legend.

Redmer YskaAugust 11, 2023

HistoryNonfictionReligionSociety

Shadow Worlds
by Andrew Paul Wood

'Serious, scholarly – but not po-faced': adventures in the strange and the spiritual.

Guy SomersetAugust 4, 2023

FictionLiterary FictionNovel

The Waters
by Carl Nixon

A novel-in-stories interrogates generational trauma in a Canterbury family.

Rebecca HillAugust 4, 2023

MāoriPoetry

Birdspeak
by Arihia Latham

A 'pātaka of emotional memory': a wry and lyrical debut poetry collection.

Tru ParahaJuly 28, 2023

FictionLiterary FictionNovelSpeculative Fiction

Audition
by Pip Adam

An ingenious exploration of constraints – and Space.

Angelique KasmaraJuly 12, 2023

FictionNovelYA

Catch a Falling Star
by Eileen Merriman

'Dark, bookish' teen drama from the doyenne of medical YA.

Erica StrettonJuly 5, 2023

ArtHistoryIllustratedNonfictionPhotography

Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960
by Lissa Mitchell

The riches of a 'restless medium' and its women artists and entrepreneurs.

Hamish ConeyJune 30, 2023

GeographyNatureNonfictionScienceTravel

Soundings
by Kennedy Warne

Reports from an explorer 'all over the map' of the natural world.

Steve BrauniasJune 28, 2023

Poetry

At the Point of Seeing
by Megan Kitching

The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.

Linda CollinsJune 23, 2023

FictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionNovel

The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer

The horror: a shocking story of witch trials in seventeenth-century East Anglia.

Sue ReidyJune 22, 2023