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    January 2014
Redeeming Brother Murrihy: The River to Hiruharama      Antony Millen
Looking for Kerouac     Mercedes Webb-Pullman                
Every Five Minutes     Bronwyn Elsmore                
  February 2014
Memories in the Bone: He who pursues revenge digs two graves     Mee-mee Phipps
Killerbyte,  Terrorbyte,  Exacerbyte   [3 separate titles]     Cat Connor
Bye Baby Bunting     Tannis Laidlaw
  March 2014
The Ming Admiral – A Chinese Odyssey     Mee-mee Phipps
Seacliff: a Regular Boy Within / Phenomena: Lost and Forgotten Children     Susan Tarr
  April 2014
New Zealand Made – After the Earthquake     Jennifer Barrer
A Long Commute Home     Art Nahill
Touchstone     Lorraine Orman
The Candidate’s Daughter     Catherine Lea    
  May 2014
The Case of the Distant Relative     Jill Darragh
Misplaced     Lee Murray
The Secret of Spirits Bay     Stephen Barker
  June 2014
A Taste of Gold     Deryn Pittar
Conclave     Lee Murray, Jan Goldie, Piper Mejia, Celine Murray
Destinies Divided: A World War 1 romance of the Chinese Diaspora     Mee-mee Phipps
  July 2014
The Riddle of the Stones     Stephen Barker
  August 2014
Goldmine Experience     Jan Eriksen    
Sark Trilogy [3 titles as below]     Chris Davies Curtis               
     So You Want to Live on Sark;  From a Feudal Isle to Aotearoa;  From Queen’s Nurse to Godzone 
 September 2014
The Little Glow Worm Who Couldn’t Turn on His Light     June Allen
Slightly Spooky     Carolyn McKenzie
  October 2014
On the Edge     Linley Jones
Socket, Where are you?     Jude Leonard & Larraine Buswell
Fifty South     Margaret Beames
An Itchy Hand, Short stories     Jean McDavitt
  November 2014
So You Returned to Sark     Chris Davies Curtis
Metaphysical Midnight Cowboy Blues     Peter Dornauf
  December 2014
Walter’s Story     Claire Bunt 
  January 2015
Maungawhau A Short History of Volunteer Action     Friends of Maungawhau
  February 2015
The Birthday Monster     Bridget Sherlock
The Parkhurst Boys     Margaret Beames
  March 2015
Collected Poems 2008-2014     Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Buzzy Bee’s Birthday Party; + Buzzy Bee’s Food Shapes [2 titles]     Joy Cowley / Richard Hoit                 
Outlanders     Margaret Beames
The Emotional Challenges of Immigration: Strategies and stories of those who stayed     Ellie Baker
  April 2015
Which Way is Starboard Again? Overcoming fears & facing challenges sailing the South Pacific     Anna Kirtlan 
Rich Man Road     Ann Glamuzina
At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and the Hokianga, 1842-1900     Jennifer Ashton
  May 2015
The Stingray Sandwich     June Allen / Polly Whimp
Season of Salt & Honey     Hannah Tunnicliffe
Sleep Sister     Karen Breen
   June 2015
Otherwise     John Dennison
The Smallest Continent – Journeys Through New Zealand Landscapes     Derek Grzelewski
  July 2015
New Zealand Mountaineering: a history in photographs     John Wilson
Whatever Happened to Ishtar?     Anne Frandi-Coory
A Step Too Far     Peter Thomas
Whale Years     Gregory O’Brien
  August 2015
A History of Crime - The Southern Double-Cross     Dinah Holman
Hunter’s Beach     Christine Ashton
The Green Hat That Blew Away; +  A Day of Surprises [2 titles]     Claire Bunt / Philip Webb
  September 2015
Pussycat Pussycat and More Purrfect Nursery Rhymes     Donovan Bixley  
Sonny Ball: The Legend of Sonny Bill Williams     Paul Kent
Vintage Paua Shell Jewellery     Elly van de Wijdeven
  October 2015
Unbreakable Spirit     Karen McMillan
What Ever Happened to Milo?     Claire Bunt / Philip Webb
Mister Spears and his Hairy Ears    Dawn McMillan / Ross Kinnaird
Original Sin     Tony Chapelle
  November 2015
The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie     David Hastings
Hieroglyph     WJ Scott
Trust No One     Paul Cleave
First Names Only     Elaine Blick
Corrupted on the Cote d’Azur     Richard Donald
  December 2015
Not Our Problem     Ian Cowan
Nurses in Training     Chris Davies Curtis
Apple Tea and Camel Pee     Linley Jones
’Tis the Month Before Christmas, The True Story of Santa     Patricia Chapman /Richard Hoit
Athene’s Prophecy Book 1 of trilogy: Gaius Claudius Scaevola     Ian J Miller
Atonement     Vaughan Rapatahana
Sunset at the Estuary     (eds)  D. Alexander,  J. Rosier-Jones
  January 2016
Bend With the Wind     Suraya Dewing
The Seer’s Wolf     Barbara Petrie
A Blimmin' Disaster     Mike Aldridge
Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2016     (eds) Susanna Andrew, Jolisa Gracewood
  February 2016
The Chain     Antony Millen
A to J The Wandering Jew     Peter Dornauf
Backwards Into the Future     Bronwyn Elsmore
  March 2016
Mystery on the Whanganui     Murray Crawford
Merely a Girl     Tony Chapelle
  May 2016
Much Ado About Shakespeare: Life and Times of William Shakespeare     Donovan Bixley
   June 2016
Fizzy Pop     Emma Vere-Jones (author)  Kate Snushall (illustrator)
Rooster McGurk – Unsung Colonial Hero (& reluctant virgin)     Murray Crawford
   ​July 2016
New Zealand Mountaineering - a history in photographs     John Wilson
Whatever Happened to Ishtar?     Anne Frandi-Coory
A Step Too Far     Peter Thomas
Whale Years     Gregory O’Brien
   August 2016
Napoleon's Willow     Joan Norlev Taylor
A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis     Karl Du Fresne
Ladder to the Moon     P J Fry
HOPE: In the Hands of Fatima     Christine Spring
When the Roller Coaster Stops     Susan Tarr
   September 2016
Love & Magic     John Hanlon
Scarlet & Magenta     Lindsey Dawson
The Road to Hell: State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand     Elizabeth Stanley
Tail of the Taniwha     Courtney Sina Meredith
Days Are Like Grass     Sue Younger
   October 2016
A Moment’s Silence     Christopher Abbey
Great Tales from Rural New Zealand     Gordon McLauchlan
Mister Hamilton     John Dickson
The Youngest Son     Tony Chapelle
This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art     Anthony Byrt
   November 2016
Squeakopotamus     Dawn McMillan,  illustrator Ross Kinnaird
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Maori Portraits     (eds) Ngahiraka Mason, Zara Stanhope 
12 Huia Birds     Julian Stokoe,  illustrations Stacy Eyles
The Forbidden Gene, Book 2 in the Ryxin Trilogy     Genesis Cotterell
Tupuna Awa: People and Politics of the Waikato River     Marama Muru-Lanning
   December 2016
The Last Time We Spoke     Fiona Sussman
The World, the Flesh & the Devil: Life & Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England & the Antipodes 1765–1838  Andrew Sharp
What Does the Sea Sound Like?     Evie Mahoney
Rena     Laura Nicholas-Grieve
The Assyrian Girl     Thomas W Devine
Even Time     by Chris Eyes
   January 2017
Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017     (eds) Susanna Andrew, Jolisa Gracewood,
Māori Place Names: Their meanings and origins. Fourth Edition     A.W.Reed.  Revised by Peter Dowling
Tiny Owl on the Ramshackle Farm     Lotte Wotherspoon (author & illustrator)
The March of the Foxgloves     Karyn Hay     
The Second Foot     Peter Thomas
   February 2017
Lewisville     Alexandra Tidswell
All or Nothing: Bringing balance to the achievement-oriented personality     Mike McKinney
Look Away, Dixieland     M J Burr
   March 2017
The Lost of Syros     Emma Timpany
Te Tini o Toi, Book 1     Narena Olliver
Te Tini o Toi, Book 2     Narena Olliver
I Too     T E Stazyk
   April 2017
Brushstrokes of Memory     Karen McMillan 
Hammer that mortgage (revised, updated)     David Tillman
   May 2017
Notice of Death (Book 3 in the Ryxin trilogy)     Genesis Cotterell
The Roaring Silence: A compendium of interviews, essays, poetry, art and prose about suicide   (ed) Amelia Harris
The Chinese Proverb     Tina Clough
Māori Oral Tradition: He Kōrero nō te Ao Tawhito     Jane McRae
   June 2017
The Journeys of Besieged Languages     (eds) Delyn Day, Poia Rewi, Rawinia Higgins
A Book of Kiwi Limericks     Peter Low  
Orphanage Boys     A.N. Arthur
Selected Poems     Ian Wedde
Jem     Barry Johns  
   July 2017
Ngā Atua – Maori Gods     Robyn Kahukiwa
New Zealand Rugby Country – How the game shaped our nation     Desmond Wood
The Wild Side     Janet Balcombe
Through the Lonesome Dark     Paddy Richardson
   August 2017
The Truth About Language: What it is and Where it Came From     Michael C. Corballis
Seeing How: Beating Blind Spots     Jewel Dell
Slave Power     Raewyn Dawson 
Out of Poland: when the best revenge is to have survived     Jenny Harrison     
The Women's Suffrage Petition, Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine 1893
   September 2017
The Girl from County Clare     Vicky Adin 
The Lives of Alice Pothron, one woman’s escape to freedom     Jenny Harrison with Evelyne Pothron
A Tranquil Place & Other Stories     Pamella Laird
Presumed Guilty     Mark McGinn
New Zealand Secondary Schools and Your Child: a Guide for Parents     Bali Haque
   October 2017
A Long Journey: From Steam to Cyber     Gracie Stathers
He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century     Lachy Paterson & Angela Wanhalla
Mission To Motherhood     Amira Mikhail
Nothing Bad Happens Here     Nikki Crutchley
A Killer Harvest     Paul Cleave   
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds     Anne Salmond
   November 2017
Air Born     J L Pawley
Hugo’s Gift     Suzanne Singleton
Kiwi on the Camino: A Walk that Changed My Life     Vivianne Flintoff
A Distant Belonging     Tony Chapelle
Tightrope     Selina Tusitala Marsh
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand     Chris Brickell
   December 2017
Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980     Leonard Bell
Allen Curnow: Collected Poems     (eds) Elizabeth Caffin & Terry Sturm
Allen Curnow: Simply by Sailing in a New Direction. A Biography     Terry Sturm
I’ll have You Home by Christmas     June Allen
Max And his Big Imagination – The Race Car     Chrissy Metge / Dmitry Chizhov
Little Truff and the Whales     Ann Russell / Lara Frizzell
   January 2018
A Sovereign Nation     D.A. Crossman
​A Short History of the New Zealand Wars     Gordon McLauchlan
The Little Mouse's Tail     Ardi Alemi, Charlotte & Russell Wanhill
The Ventricle of Memory: A memoir     Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Contest    Carne Maxwell
   ​February 2018
Patched Words: A collection of short stories     Rae McGregor
The Light and Dark in our Stuff     Mere Taito
   March 2018
Track Tales      Mercedes Webb-Pullman  
He's so MASC      Chris Tse
Bruce Finds a Home     Kathryn van Beek
Amy's Dreaming Adventures: The Enchanted Forest    Chrissy Metge
​Crystal Reign     Kelly Lyndon​
   April 2018
Constant Radical: The Life and Times of Sue Bradford     Jenny Chamberlain    
The Bulford Kiwi: The Kiwi we left behind     Colleen Brown
Everyday Strength: Recipes and Wellbeing Tips for Cancer Patients    Sam Mannering & Karen McMillan
   May 2018
An End of Honour      M J Burr
The Gift Horse      Sophie Siers; Illustrated by Katharine White
Doumar and the Doctor      Neville de Villiers
Ternion      Vaughan Rapatahana
Glory Days and Other Stories      John Mack 
   June 2018
Hellholes of the World      David G Brown
Arlo and the Gingko Tree      Sophie Siers, illustrator Kate Twhigg
Adrift in the Fog: a Journey of Rediscovery      C C Johannes Peet
Out of the Wild      Charlie Paterson
   July 2018
Woolly Wally      Dawn McMillan
Elastic Island Adventures Jewel Lagoon      Karen McMillan
My Grandfather’s War      Glyn Harper & Jenny Cooper
   August 2018
Globetrotting on a Shoestring      Lynley Smith
Cry the Wounded Land: Conversations About Maori, Pakeha and the Land          Mark Holloway
K’yra – Hunting for Unity       K W Austin
   September 2018
Mostly Cloudy            James O’Sullivan
This is it! It’s your life. Live it.          Amanda Mortimer
Fishing for Māui         Isa Pearl Ritchie
Criminal Justice: a New Zealand Introduction      Jarrod Gilbert and Greg Newbold (eds)
  October 2018
Child Power       Raewyn Dawson
Where There is Life There Really is Hope  /  Caroline Cook Rehabilitated       Valeria Tokoar
Two Slices of Bread      Ingrid Coles    
Odyssey of the Unknown ANZAC      David Hastings
My Old Man He Played Rugby      Peter Millett
Gallipoli to the Somme      Alexander Aitken
  November 2018
The Infinite Game      Niki Harré
Sport and the New Zealanders: A History      Greg Ryan & Geoff Wilson
The Landwaster: A story of Harald Hardraada      MJ Burr
The Green Fairy      Alejandro Davila 
Psychology for a Better World      Niki Harre
Pasture and Flock      Anna Jackson       
 December 2018
Return to Riversleigh      Anne Ashby
Te Koparapara: An Introduction to the Maori World    Michael Reilly, Suzanne Duncan, Gianna Leoni, Lachy Paterson,
              Lyn Carter, Matiu Rātima, Poia Rewi (eds)
Between Two Worlds      A.N. Arthur
​Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880-1910      Roger Blackley
Emergency Response: Life, Death and Helicopters      David Greenberg
Guardians of Aotearoa: Protecting New Zealand's Legacies      Johanna Knox & Jess Charlton
 January 2019
I Have Loved Me A Man: The Life & Times of Mika      Sharon Mazer 
Innocence: a true story of a journey from darkness into light      Ludovic C.M. Romany
Take Flight      JL Pawley
Mini Whinny: Happy Birthday to Me!      Stacy Gregg, Ruth Paul
Rivers Rare: The first 25 years of Project River Recovery 1991–2016    Neville Peat, Brian Patrick, Aalbert Rebergen
 February 2019
Outrageous Living: A daily guide to a life without limits      Bernadette Soares
Henley Lake from Wasteland to Wetland – A Wairarapa Community Anthology    (compiled by) Viv Walker
Oriental Parade: A Novel Of Inter-Woven Stories      David Fountain
Wild Garlic      Peter Thomas
Social Science Research in New Zealand: An Introduction      (eds) Martin Tolich and Carl Davidson
Plague Ship & Other Tales: Dark Fancies & Strange Whimsies      Jonathan Natusch 
 March 2019
​So You Want To Be A Cop...    Robert Rattenbury 
Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd    Kat Merewether

Ocean of Milk   Belinda Aycrigg
The Reluctant Assassin    Alexander Logan
These Islands Here: Short Stories of the South Pacific    Bronwyn Elsmore
 April 2019
Death On The Quay      Thomas W Devine
No One Can Hear You    Nikki Crutchley
Murmurations     Art Nahill
The Pumpkin Eater’s Wife    Tannis Laidlaw
Diary of a Kiwi Kid    Robin Lee-Robinson
​ May 2019
Chronicles of The Scraeling: Chronicle Two – The Scraeling     MJ Burr
Storm Clouds Over Levuka     Margaret Gilbert
Because a Woman’s Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean    Sugar Magnolia Wilson
Waitangi A Living Treaty      Matthew Wright
Between the Immensities     Doreen Davy
Pathway of the Birds – the voyaging achievements of Māori and their Polynesian ancestors    Andrew Crowe 
 June 2019
Old Russian Jack      Tania Atkinson, Viv Walker
Tenby’s Coda      Richard Eaton
The Hero from Nithdale Station    Dick Tripp
Life on Volcanoes: Contemporary Essays   Janet McAllister (ed) 
Novel    Vaughan Rapatahana 
Elastic Island Adventures: Rainbow Cove    Karen McMillan
 July 2019
There’s a Hedgehog in My Pants    Amy Harrop & Ross Kinnaird
Melt    Jeff Murray
Tails   W J Scott
Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! Forever Brave – B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939–1945    Wira Gardiner
The Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage    Amy Leigh Wicks
 August 2019
​Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys     Catherine Hammond & Mary Kisler (eds)
Ngā Kupu Waikato: an anthology of Waikato poetry     Vaughan Rapatahana (editor)
Making History    Jock Phillips
Meltwater     Suzanne Ashmore
Dubrovnik, My Love     Suzanne Brooks-Pinčević
One Single Thing    Tina Clough
 September 2019
Wellbeing From Within    Jeannette McCallum
Miniwings – Moonlight the Unicorn’s High Tea Hiccup    Sally Sutton
Kindred     Tony Chapelle
Relative Strangers: A Mother’s Adoption Memoir      Pip Murdoch
Funny As. The Story of New Zealand Comedy     Paul Horan & Philip Matthews
By the Light of the Moon    Bernadette Marama Gavin
​ October 2019
AUP New Poets 5    Carolyn de Carlo, Sophie van Waardenberg, Rebecca Hawkes. Anna Jackson (ed)
My Kiwi Gumboots     June Pitman-Hayes; with Minky Stapleton; Ngaere Roberts 
Day Walks in New Zealand – 100 best short tracks    Shaun Barnett
Whenua Hou – A New Land: The story of Codfish Island     Neville Peat
​​ November 2019
Mophead     Selina Tusitala Marsh
Always Song in the Water   Gregory O'Brien
The 50 Best Birdwatching Sites In New Zealand   Liz Light
 December 2019
Dawn Of The Zombie Apocalypse      Lee Murray                                                   
Pacific: An Ocean of Wonders    Philip J Hatfield
Passion - Living, Feasting and Writing deep in the Marlborough Sounds    Marion Day
Words of a Kaumātua     Haare Williams;  Witi Ihimaera (ed)
Volcanoes of Auckland: A Field Guide     Bruce W. Hayward; Aerial photography: Alastair Jamieson
 January 2020
Frozen Summer     Ian Austin
Out There: SCAPE Public Art 1998-2018    Warren Feeney
Short & Sharp 2019    Writers of Picton
Chronicles of The Scraeling: Chronicle Three: The Varanger    MJ Burr
 February 2020
Code Me Missing – A Hospital Thriller    P.M.A. Hayes
Coco Crab’s Lagoon     Robyn Panther with Thomas Hsieh
 March 2020
the everrumble    Michelle Elvy
Into the Void    Christina O'Reilly
Moa’s Ark     Peter Millett;   Illustrations Shaun Yeo
The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell     Sandra Arnold
The Gift of Words     Josie Laird
 April 2020 
Kia Kaha! Together standing strong   June Pitman-Hayes, with Minky Stapleton, Ngaere Roberts
A Short History of Farming in New Zealand    Gordon McLauchlan
Scott Base Antarctica – The Early Years     Don Webster
 May 2020
Mixed: Creative Writing by Newcomers to Our Shores     Angie Belcher (compiler)
Journal of a Junior Writer, Diary of a Kiwi Kid Series: Book 2     Robin Lee-Robinson 
 June 2020
Forgiven      Geoff Lawson
Alphabet Resort – Elastic Island Adventures Book 4     Karen McMillan
The Radicals     Marolyn Krasner
 July 2020
Bill Birch: Minister of Everything       Brad Tattersfield
You Have a Lot to Lose: a memoir 1956-1986     C. K. Stead
Automania: Iconic New Zealand Collections     Don Jessen
Ripiro Beach – A Memoir of Life After Near Death     Caroline Barron
The Air that we Breathe      Kara Douglas
 August 2020
While the Fantail Lives     Alan Titchall
A Lifetime in Galápagos     Tui de Roy
Shifting Currents      Joanna Orwin
Mellons Bay      Suzanne Singleton
 September 2020
For Reasons of Their Own    Chris Stuart
The Telling Time    P J McKay 
The Ninth Candle   by Jenny Harrison 
Omeletta Hen   Janelle Wilkey  Illustrated by Deborah Hinde
AUP New Poets 7   Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae, Claudia Jardine; Anna Jackson (ed)
 October 2020
Who Dropped the Ball? Democracy in Crisis    David Chapman
Body Politic    Mary Cresswell
Bill and Shirley, A Memoir   Keith Ovenden
Hare & Ruru    Laura Shallcrass
 December 2020
Paul Dibble X:  A Decade of Sculpture 2010-2020   Fran Dibble
The Murder Club    Nikki Crutchley
Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem   Selina Tusitala Marsh
One Little Lie    Carne Maxwell
 January 2021
The Forger and the Thief   Kirsten McKenzie
Life Sentences: Shared Short Stories    Peter Beatson, Tony Chapelle, David Fountain
Addressed to Greta   Fiona Sussman
Bush Sick Land   Julian Barrett
 February 2021
The Healing Hands    Chris Davies Curtis
Have You Forgotten Yet?    A N Arthur
​ March 2021
This is Where I Stand     Philippa Werry & Kieran Rynhart 
The Nine Lives of Kitty K.  An Unsung Heroine of the Goldfields     Margaret Mills
The Remarkable Miss Digby     Patricia Donovan
The Little Doctor:  The autobiography of Guy Scholefield      Guy Scholefield
 April 2021
Wild Seas to Greenland     Rebecca Hayter
Portrait of a Man      Vicky Adin
The King’s Nightingale        Sherryl Jordan
​ May 2021
My Cat Can See Ghosts      Emily Joe
 June 2021
Beyond the Rimu Grove     Patricia Fenton       
There’s A Bear in the Window      June Pitman-Hayes & Minky Stapleton
Creative Conservation    Chrissy Wickes & Sonia Frimmel
Burst Kisses On The Actual Wind    Courtney Sina Meredith
Hold the Line    Kerry Harrison
 July 2021
The Only Living Lady Parachutist   Catherine Clarke
Takahē Trouble    by Sally Sutton, pictures by Jenny Cooper
​The Piano Girls    Elizabeth Smither
 August 2021
Gaps in the Light      Iona Winter
Batkiwi   Melinda Szymanik;   pictures: Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
Just Remember    Donna Blaber
 September 2021
Crimechurch    Michael Botur
AUP New Poets 8    Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, Modi Deng.  Anna Jackson (Ed)
Cold Wallet     Rosy Fenwicke
​ October 2021
[Lure the Lie]    Cat Connor
Hine and the Tohunga Portal     Ataria Sharman
You Can’t Rush an Earthquake - Repair, Rebuild, Repeat     Brenda Greene
 November 2021
The Pink Jumpsuit – short fictions, tall truths    Emma Neale
ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes    Vaughan Rapatahana
The Seekers’ Garden    Isa Pearl Ritchie
The Road To The Future, An Electric Pioneer And His Magnificent Battery Cars    Viv Walker
 December 2021
What Colour is the Sky?    Laura Shallcrass
A Peacock in the Pantry, and some rare breeds on a Canterbury Farm    June Allen
The Lighthouse    Christopher Parker
The Sea Walks into a Wall    Anne Kennedy
The Essential Fairy    Anna Kenna
 January 2022
Buenos Aires Triad    FE Beyer
Spies and Lies: The Mysterious Dr Dannevill     Julie Glamuzina
Wild Chorus    Peter Thomas
Troubled Water – Viola Vincent Reporting    Anna Kenna
​ February 2022
Hokē Te Whanokē/Bod the Odd    Vaughan Rapatahana
Call Me Madeleine   Kate Richards
The Fundraiser: The good the Bad and the Stupid   C.C. Johannes Peet
The 13th Animal, Why Taffy the Cat Missed Out   Vaughan Rapatahana
 March 2022
Lion Guards the Cake    Ruth Paul
ināianei/now        Vaughan Rapatahana
Trials and Tribulations of a Talented Teen    Robin Lee-Robinson
Tūnui | Comet    Robert Sullivan
 April 2022
The Water's Dead: A DI Nyree Bradshaw Novel    Catherine Lea
Action & Travels: How Poetry Works    Anna Jackson
Home Truths    Mark McGinn
 May 2022
Flip Flop Bay, Elastic Island Adventures    Karen McMillan
Unholy Business    Nora West
Low Flying    John Reynolds
 June 2022
If That’s What It Takes   Les Allen
Matariki Around the World   Rangi Matamua & Miriama Kamo  with Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
Pocket Money & Other Stories   Vivienne Lingard
​ July 2022
Kororā and the Sushi Shop   Linda Jane Keegan
No Other Place to Stand   Jordan Hamel, Rebecca Hawkes, Erik Kennedy, Essa Ranapiri (eds)
Just Keep Going    Donna Blaber
 August 2022
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger   Jennifer Ashton
Pelorus Jack the Dolphin Guide   Susan Brocker
Johnathan   Elise Brooke
 September 2022
Īhaka and the Unexpected Visitor   Kirsty Wadsworth; with Zak Waipara, Pānia Papa
 October 2022
There was a garden in Nuremberg: a novel  Navina Michal Clemerson
Barefoot   R. V. Bayley
 November 2022
My American Chair   Elizabeth Smither
The Road to Madhapur   David Whittet
Hare & Kunekune’s Moonlight Mission   Laura Shallcrass
 December 2022
A Runner’s Guide to Rakiura   Jessica Howland Kany
Life and Death in Birkenhead  K.M Tarrant
A Virtuous Lie  Christina O'Reilly
 January 2023
Every Sign of Life, On family Ground   Nicholas Lyon Gresson
Mountains, Volcanoes, Coasts and Caves…  Bruce W. Hayward  photos: Alastair Jamieson, Lloyd Homer
Who Took the Toilet Paper   Amy Harrop & Jenny Cooper
Nikolai's Quest   D. Robinson
 February 2023
There Are No Moa, e Hoa   Melinda Szymanik, illustrator Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
Peace Stick    Stephen Johnson
Dead Before Curfew   Jenny Harrison
 March 2023
Say I Do This: Poems 2018-2022    C. K. Stead
Transit Lounge: Stories    JCL Purchase
 April 2023
Mama’s Chickens    Michelle Worthington & Nicky Johnston
Broken is Beautiful   Jane Shearer
​ May 2023
The New Zealand Dream 1, The seeds are sown; 2, Growth and destruction   Sheila
Howling in the Wilderness   Diana Harris
The Spanish Garden   Cliff Taylor
Southern Celts    Celine Kearney
 June 2023
Who Disturbs the Kūkupa?     Kayleen M. Hazlehurst
The Democracy Game    Riley Chance
Double Jeopardy    Stef Harris
te pāhikahikatanga    Vaughan Rapatahana
 July 2023
Chameleon   MJ Burr
We Need to talk about Norman: New Zealand’s lost leader    Denis Welch
Eat and Get Gas, a novel    J.A. Wright
Elastic Island Adventures: Rarotonga  Karen McMillan
 August 2023
Tuatara, A Living Treasure    Katie Furze & Ned Barraud
Big Little Blue: SandyPants!   Raymond McGrath
Boxed    Stephen Johnson
 September 2023
Te Reo Kapekape – Māori Wit and Humour   Hona Black
Green Rain   Alastair Clarke
Gordon Walters  Francis Pound, with Foreword & Afterword by Leonard Bell
Bits of String Too Short to Use, A memoir of collecting, writing and the highs and lows of life   Jennifer Beck
 October 2023
Storms Ahead    Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian    Rebecca Hayter
The Healing    Elise Smith
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories    Paula Morris (ed)
 November 2023
Everything to Hide    KV Martins
Don Binney: Flight Path   Greg O’Brien
War Bride   Patricia Fenton 
An Addict in the Family: A Mother's Tale of Heartbreak, Courage and Resilience   Stephanie Hammond
 December 2023
So You Want to be a Nurse?     Chris Davies Curtis
Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020   Anne Salmond
 January 2024
a liminal gathering: Elixir & Star Grief Almanac 2023   Iona Winter, editor
Where the wind blows    Sandra Arnold
 February 2024
The Calm Beyond   Ross Grigg
The Dragon Who Lost His Spark    Megan Holden, with Glenn Zimmer, illustrator
​ March 2024
Max Gunn's Pay Book   Graham Lindsay
For the Love of Mary    Carne Maxwell
The War Photographers    SL Beaumont
 April 2024
Turbulent Threads   Karen McMillan
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain      Gregory Hill
 May 2024
Call of the Kookaburra    Elaine Blick
AUP New Poets 10 Tessa Keenan, romesh dissanayake, Sadie Lawrence; Anne Kennedy (ed)
Kaikōura Rendezvous    Stephen Johnson
Death of a Countess    Jenny Harrison
Hopurangi—Songcatcher   Robert Sullivan
 June 2024
My Nature Books Aku Paki Taiao   Yvonne Morrison, Julia Crouth, Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, Pānia Papa, Jenny Cooper
​Pānia Papa, Jenny Cooper
Despatches    Lee Murray
Tales from the Lucky Generation    Bob Calkin
 July 2024
​Guardians    Alan Titchall
Greene Lyon  Alan Goodwin
 August 2024
Partly Sunny    James O’Sullivan
Our Gun   Geoff Lawson
Nell   Penelope Todd
Below Ground   Sandra Arnold
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud   Lee Murray
 September 2024
Beau and the Stone Giant    Hydie Balle-Hands,   with Audee Halim, illustrator
Sight Lines    Kirsty Baker
Ngā Hapa Reo: Common Māori Language Errors   Hona Black & Te Aorangi Murphy-Fell
Iconoclasm    David Coyle



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