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The Starving Bride
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Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush
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It Gets In Your Blood
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This Compulsion in Us (B Format)
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Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World
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Lucky Creatures
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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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Forthcoming Books
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Whatua te Kākahu: Christianity, the Māori World and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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PRE-ORDERHoops of Steel: New and Selected Stories
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PRE-ORDERthe human dress: personal essays
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PRE-ORDERPoorhara (B format)
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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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Te Herenga Waka University Press is a division of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and is Aotearoa's leading publisher of fiction and poetry, as well as scholarly and literary nonfiction.
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Catherine Chidgey’s The Starving Bride chosen a...
Catherine Chidgey will be first in the spotlight for a new national campaign celebrating homegrown books.
Catherine Chidgey’s The Starving Bride chosen a...
Catherine Chidgey will be first in the spotlight for a new national campaign celebrating homegrown books.
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pip adam wins 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for ...
The judges described Audition as 'an ambitious and original book about many things: the carceral state, dehumanization, memory and, perhaps above all, forgiveness as a way forward.'
pip adam wins 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for ...
The judges described Audition as 'an ambitious and original book about many things: the carceral state, dehumanization, memory and, perhaps above all, forgiveness as a way forward.'
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Te Herenga Waka University Press author Catheri...
Congratulations, Catherine Chidgey, Arts Foundation Laureate 2026!
Te Herenga Waka University Press author Catheri...
Congratulations, Catherine Chidgey, Arts Foundation Laureate 2026!
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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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