Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu...

Patterson: Houses of Aotearoa

Andrew Patterson

A selection of beautiful houses set amid the world's most stunning landscapes, designed by award-winning New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson. In Māori culture, architecture is approached as a construction of beliefs: a building must emulate and amplify personalities, hopes and aspirations, becoming ...

Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka

Jeff Evans

Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai...

Cat + Gamer Volume 3

Wataru Nadatani

A brand-new cat owner with no experience living with pets, quiet office worker Riko uses lessons drawn from video games to guide her in cat care. Musubi, her cute new companion, tries to understand Riko's behavior through a cat's worldview. Enjoying their time together, Riko learns more about cohabitati...

Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

Carrie Rudzinski, Grace Iwashita-Taylor

From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam poets,...

The Other Tenant: The spine-tingling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Lesley Kara

THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE'Marlow has always lived in unusual places. But when she accepts a position as a live-in property guardian, she finds herself moving somewhere she swore she'd never return to.Right from the start, she knows it's a ...