Facing the aftermath 40 years on In 1987 Sally Wenley was the driven, fun-loving and at times ...
SALLY WENLEY
The vivid biography of a colonial scholar, scientist and gentleman Longlisted for the 2026 Ockham...
ANDREW MCKAY, RICHARD WOLFE
Candid insight into the life and work of a general practitioner Longlisted for the 2026 Ockham Ne...
LUCY O’HAGAN
The damage done to a family by war Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a fa...
MARY KISLER
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand ‘If I’d been asked to vote on it I would’ve said I’...
DICK FRIZZELL
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds Shortlisted for the 2023 New Zealand...
JOHANNA EMENEY, SARAH LAING
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes This gripping biography of Ai...
ADAM CLAASEN
A young vet’s experiences with cows and camels By the time Marcus Taylor graduated from veterinar...
MARCUS TAYLOR
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer Shortlisted for the 2025 Bert Roth Award for Labour His...
MARK DERBY
A woman driven to photograph In a career that spanned six decades, the Dutch-Kiwi photographer An...
PAUL MOON
An eagle, and its place in our history LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS The...
PETER WALKER
What it means to own your past Shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Nominated ...
RICHARD SHAW
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform Awarded Best Book, Best Cover, Bes...
JADE KAKE, JEREMY HANSEN
The power of mana waka to inspire a people Shortlisted for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award...
JEFF EVANS
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has s...
JOAN SKINNER
A love affair with the underwater world Longlisted for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Pe...
KENNEDY WARNE
An important new history considered through a queer lens Shortlisted for 2023 Ockham New Zealand ...
PAUL DIAMOND
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand To not know your family story is a hug...
JO WILLIS, BRIGITTA BAKER
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry One afternoon in Auckland, journal...
HAZEL PHILLIPS
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp’s m...
JAN KEMP
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers Shortlisted for the New Zealand ...
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused Awarded Best First Work of I...
BRIDGET HACKSHAW
The compelling memoir of a Māori leader In 1998, just as South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu was about to ...
MARK SOLOMON, MARK REVINGTON
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging In this imp...
