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Jim Mora from RNZ’s Sunday Morning programme interviewed Peter Lineham about his book Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealan...
10 Questions with Peter Lineham
1. How did you arrive at the idea of this book? I thought about writing a textbook on New Zealand religious history, and it seemed to me a very du...
Sunday Best reviewed in Toi Motu magazine
Toi Motu InterIslands magazine featured a review of Peter Lineham’s Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the churc...
Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
Peter Walker
Peter Walker began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Fox Boy.
Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
Sunday Star-Times reviews Wanted
The Sunday Star-Times’ Rosa Shiels makes a salient point in her review of Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor: ‘In high...
Adam Claasen's Author Q&A in Sunday Star-Times
Adam Claasen, author of Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell, answers the Author Q&A for Sunday Star-Times: ‘...
Marae food sovereignty: Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Sunday Star-Times: ‘When Dr Jessica Hutchings begin...
Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for the Sunday Star-Tim...
Hard by the Cloud House reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Peter Walker's latest novel Hard by the Cloud House for Waiheke Weekender: ‘There is much to love about this book, which is...
Massey Press authors appearing at the 2018 Going West Writers Festival
Two Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the 2018 Going West Writers Festival taking place in Titirangi, Auckland, 14–16 September....
Kirsty Johnston
Kirsty Johnston is an award-winning investigative journalist with an interest in inequality, gender and social justice.
Thom Conroy
Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University.
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
Kathryn van Beek
Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is the author of two children’s books and the short story collection Pet (2020), which is also available as a podcast.
Mark Amery
Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation.
Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
‘Thank God for this book’ — listen to Adam Claasen’s interview with RNZ’s Jim Mora
Jim Mora, from RNZ’s Sunday Morning programme, interviews Adam Claasen about some of the amazing stories in the book here.
Jeff Evans in conversation with Jim Mora
Jeff Evans in conversation with Jim Mora for RNZ’s Sunday Morning. Listen to the full interview here.
Dick Frizzell on Magic Talk
Dick Frizzell discusses The Sun Is a Star on Magic Talk’s The Sunday Cafe. Listen to the full audio here.
10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
Noel O'Hare interviewed by Roman Travers
Listen to author Noel O'Hare discussing his new book Tooth and Veil: The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse with Roman Travers on Magic...
Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
Ensemble has featured Lil O’Brien's essay ‘Our American fertility dream’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent ed...
Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
Brigitta Baker and Jo Willis, authors of Adopted, feature on TVNZ
Authors of Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker featured on TVNZ’s Sunday programme ‘Who am I?’ this weekend. They...
Steve Braunias reviewed the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Steve Braunias has written an excellent and comprehensive review on Newsroom of the newly republished The South Island of New Zealand — From the Ro...
Ladies’ Litera-Tea event with Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond will be talking about her memoir Song for Rosaleen at the first Ladies’ Litera-Tea event on 2 September. Organised by the the Women’s B...
Frances Walsh in conversation with Jim Mora
Frances Walsh's new book, Endless Sea focuses on the sea which encircles Aotearoa, and 100 objects from the collection of the New Zealand Maritime...
Mark Adams clocks up 50 years of undoing ‘othering’ in Aotearoa
Sapeer Mayron interviews Mark Adams about his work and new book Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for Sunday Star-Times: ‘The acclaimed p...
Nick Allen — Mastering Mountains, RNZ interview
As a child, Nick Allen had a map of Mount Everest pinned to the ceiling above his bed. It was always his dream to one day climb it. But after he de...
Rebooting the Regions in the press
Rebooting the Regions has been getting fantastic coverage across the media. Russel Blackstock writes in the Herald on Sunday about how our smaller...
MUP authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to have a number of our authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival: Barbara Ewing will be appearing at the Gala event,...
Havelock North and Auckland launches for John Scott Works
Join us to celebrate the launch of John Scott Works, by David Straight. This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and cultural si...
The Crewe Murders co-author Kirsty Johnston profiled in Taranaki Daily News
‘A former Taranaki Daily News reporter has co-written a book on one of New Zealand’s most fascinating cold case. Kirsty Johnston, who now works for...
The Fruit Shop by Gilbert Wong: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
The Fruit Shop: A story of growing up as a Chinese New Zealander Wong Gee and Co was open five and a half days a week, and only succeeded when trea...
10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
This book is about three adjoining Auckland suburbs — Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere — and the people who have lived here. As in all suburbs, th...