New Zealand

This remarkable story of Bill McLeod, legendary New Zealand mountaineer, is written by Ross Cullen with Pip Lynch. Bill McLeod did not start mountaineering until he was thirty, when he moved to New Zealand in 1978. With an...

Professor Paul Moon is one of New Zealand's most prolific authors; his latest biography on photographer Ans Westra garnered glowing reviews. In this book his meticulous research shows, through selected art works, how imperial art became a form...

Tells the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod's 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Sky in Scotland with their six children.  Wending overland through territories and cultures unfamiliar to most Westerners in...

Brad Thorn's career rewrote the rules of what an athlete can achieve. From his country upbringing on the frosty fields of Otago in New Zealand to the baked turf of Queensland in Australia, Brad Thorn reveals the powerful...

Perfect Family. Perfect Weekend. Perfect Crime. Stay up all night with this twisting thriller... perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Liane Moriarty and Ali Lowe. Turner Corp, a luxury goods empire, has been rocked by the death of...

A classic revised: the new edition of this monumental and much-loved book features its biggest update ever. A wonderful celebration of New Zealand's extraordinary and diverse birdlife. A classic revised: the new edition of this monumental and much-loved...

Set in the 1990s in New Zealand’s King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the scintillating new rural noir from the author of When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole. It’s a beautiful day to be alive, Bill...

The official turn-by-turn guide to bikepacking the length of New Zealand from Cape Reinga to Bluff along the Tour Aotearoa route.

Born Maori (Ngatikahungunu), raised Pakeha, Kim Rangiaonui Logan's father was commander in D Company, 8th Maori Battalion, but returned from war a damaged man, unable to cope with his children. But this is no misery memoir. Kim climbed...

My father has been chipping himself down since he arrived here,he is half man and half vessel, readying for the journey to Hawaiki.Giving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that at first seems...

1942 in Wellington, and the war has never felt closer. Lorna's older brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as the war in the Pacific rages on, 20,000 American troops are sent to keep New Zealand safe....

Pill-Rolling Fingers is a series of poems by Marsden-funded researcher Tara Coleman. It brings together personal poems from her own experience of early-onset Parkinson's and research poems crafted from the stories of 48 other New Zealanders living with...

Learn a roadmap to healthy soil and revitalised food systems to powerfully address these times of challenge. This book equips producers with knowledge, skills and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Learn how to: Triage...

Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for studies...

This book is a photographic tribute to the beautiful but little-known world of New Zealand fungi. It is the work of Paula Vigus, who was the photographer for the spectacularly successful 'Fungi of Aotearoa: A curious forager's field...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand's South Island. Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from taking New Zealand's most scenic train...

The relationship between takata and whenua-people and land-is a long thread that weaves through the art history of Aotearoa New Zealand.Beginning in Te Waipounamu, our greenstone isle, and reaching outwards, across Aotearoa and beyond to Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the...

What would he have wanted? As little fuss as possible. But, reading between the lines: a little help. All the latest gossip and complaints. An arse that is not wrong. Opulence. One leap from the rope ladder. The...

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger.In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is...

For most New Zealanders, Manapouri is associated with the country's largest and most successful environmental protest, but there is another, less well-known narrative of this time. The struggle to drill a tailrace tunnel under a rocky mountain at...

The unforgettable detective duo from The Doctor s Wife are back, and this time the stakes are even higher. When DS Ramesh Bandara is asked to head up a homicide investigation in a small New Zealand beachside town,...

When Kieran was twelve, he crashed a "liberated" car deep in the suburban wilds. The accident left his cousin Lucas in hospital and Kieran pretty much done with breaking rules.Four years later, he's reconsidering. Lucas's Allocated recovery time...

In Arohanui: My Aotearoa New Zealand, over 100 New Zealanders talk about what the country means to them, the special and the worrying, in an inspiring and beautiful book that celebrates our country. Including well-known New Zealanders such as...

From the author of Delirious, winner of the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Chemistry – first published in 2002 – is a riveting story about families in crisis. Jamie, a forty-one-year-old drug addict recovering from surgery, goes somewhere...