Featured Books
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It Gets In Your Blood
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Salt Quilt
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Watching Television in a Love Motel
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Have this Heart
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Insuring the Future: Reimagining Home Insurance in Aotearoa
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Forthcoming Books
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PRE-ORDERThe Starving Bride
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PRE-ORDERThis Compulsion in Us (B Format)
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PRE-ORDERGloria of Greymouth
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Whatua te Kākahu: Christianity, the Māori World and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Favourites
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Rebecca K Reilly
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Rebecca K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai) is...
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Elizabeth Knox
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Elizabeth Knox is an acclaimed novelist and essayist....
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Talia Marshall
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti...
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Geoff Park
Dr Geoff Park (1946–2009) is the author of Ngā Uruora (1995) and Theatre Country:...
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The THWUP Blog
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'The book models its own difficult hopefulness....
On Tuesday 8 September 2026, we gathered at Unity Books Wellington to celebrate the publication of Abby Letteri's new book, Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World. Here is...
'The book models its own difficult hopefulness....
On Tuesday 8 September 2026, we gathered at Unity Books Wellington to celebrate the publication of Abby Letteri's new book, Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World. Here is...
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'A million tiny questions refracted through the...
On Friday 14 August, we gathered at Aro Valley Community Centre with pip adam, Book Haven, the Freedom Shop and a big crowd of people who love pip. We ate...
'A million tiny questions refracted through the...
On Friday 14 August, we gathered at Aro Valley Community Centre with pip adam, Book Haven, the Freedom Shop and a big crowd of people who love pip. We ate...
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'A truly kick-arse spaceship' — pip adam launch...
On Tuesday 9 June 2026, we gathered at Unity Books Wellington to launch Nova by Tim Corballis. Here is pip adam's brilliant launch speech.
'A truly kick-arse spaceship' — pip adam launch...
On Tuesday 9 June 2026, we gathered at Unity Books Wellington to launch Nova by Tim Corballis. Here is pip adam's brilliant launch speech.
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Five THWUP books on the 2026 Ockham Shortlist
We are thrilled that five Te Herenga Waka University Press titles have been shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — congratulations to all our authors! Shortlisted for...
Five THWUP books on the 2026 Ockham Shortlist
We are thrilled that five Te Herenga Waka University Press titles have been shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — congratulations to all our authors! Shortlisted for...
