Featured Books
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Chemistry (B format)
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Sick Power Trip
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The Book of Guilt
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The Chthonic Cycle
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This Compulsion In Us
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Black Sugarcane
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Forthcoming Books
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PRE-ORDERIt's What He Would've Wanted
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How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
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Isaac Featherston – 'Petatone': A Colonial Life
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PRE-ORDERAll Her Lives
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PRE-ORDERGiving Birth to My Father
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PRE-ORDERBonfires on the Ice
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Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021
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Events
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:...
About us
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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'What more could you ask for, really?'
On 3 September we launched the fantastic new poetry collection by Nick Ascroft: It's What He Would've Wanted.
'What more could you ask for, really?'
On 3 September we launched the fantastic new poetry collection by Nick Ascroft: It's What He Would've Wanted.
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'A damn fine read'
At the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony in Auckland we were delighted and moved to see Delirious by Damien Wilkins win the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
'A damn fine read'
At the Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony in Auckland we were delighted and moved to see Delirious by Damien Wilkins win the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
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The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025
We are thrilled to see an outstanding novel and two dazzling first books of nonfiction on the Ockham shortlist.
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025
We are thrilled to see an outstanding novel and two dazzling first books of nonfiction on the Ockham shortlist.
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