Featured Books
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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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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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'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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