Rebecca Macfie's 'Hardship and Hope' is the first BWB Text to be longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards! Pick up a copy online or at all good local bookshops.
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Rebecca Macfie's 'Hardship and Hope' is the first BWB Text to be longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards! Pick up a copy online or at all good local bookshops.
bwb.co.nz/books/hardship-and...
'Garrison World reaches beyond the conflicts of 1840–72 that are now usually referred to as the New Zealand Wars to consider the wider impact of the permanent presence of soldiers on the colony’s early history.'
Read an extract from 'Garrison World' on Kete Books!
www.ketebooks.co.nz/articles...
Congratulations to Dame Claudia Orange on making the finalists for the Ryman Healthcare Senior New Zealander of the Year Te Mātāpuputu o te Tau!
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'Utterly engrossing ... Will be keenly read by many New Zealanders.' – Kate Fullagar, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Tony Ballantyne's 'Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire' arrives in July. Preorder today!
www.bwb.co.nz/books/captain-...
Look out for this one mid-year from my esteemed fellow Cavvy friend and @universityofotago.bsky.social Prof Tony Ballantyne and @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #newbooks #history www.bwb.co.nz/books/captai... #history
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‘This is a fine book by a leading New Zealand historian at the height of his powers.’ – James Belich
‘Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire’ by Tony Ballantyne publishes July.
Preorder today: www.bwb.co.nz/books/captain-...
‘Asher Emanuel has made a nationally important contribution to literary reportage, policy analysis and our collective understanding of class society.’ – Morgan Godfery
'The Valley' publishes May, preorder it today through your local bookshop or the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-valley
A book that 'deserves to be taken seriously'. Brian Easton reviews 'The Good Economy', a new BWB Text by Craig Renney!
Read the review: www.pundit.co.nz/content/siz...
'The Good Economy' is available online or at all good bookstores: bwb.co.nz/books/the-good-eco... #BWBTexts
Author Vincent O'Malley is currently in residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Devonport, working on his next project: 'Whenua – Māori Land Loss Since 1840'.
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Trust in journalism is under real pressure – but it's not beyond repair.
In this ODT op-ed, recent BWB Texts author Tim Watkin draws on global research and three decades in the industry to explore what's gone wrong and what journalists can do about it.
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Sebastian Jablonski reviews Judith Binney's 'Encounters Across Time': 'a valuable resource that can be recommended to scholars working in this field, irrespective of their geographical location'.
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Available now through bookshops and the BWB website.
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Nine to Noon features a review of 'The Good Economy' by Craig Renney. The latest BWB Text out now!
'BWB Texts are a phenomenon in their own right' 📚
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‘…a thought-provoking contribution to a very relevant topic both within and beyond New Zealand.’
Mikko Myllyntausta reviews ‘Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History’ in the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00205_5 #BWBTexts
'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura is one of Stella Chrysostomou's best books of the last year! Listen to Stella's review on RNZ's Nine to Noon ☀️ 📖
www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
'This is journalism at its finest – immersive, meticulous, honest and brave ... A unique and important new book for Aotearoa New Zealand.’ – Rebecca Macfie
'The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City' by Asher Emanuel publishes in May.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-valley
Another reprint of 'Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook'! Pick up a copy of Alice Te Punga Somerville's bestselling Text in bookshops now.
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'All of the principles articulated in the book need to be implemented if journalism is to restore the trust upon which its future relies.'
Tim Watkin's 'How to Rebuild Trust in Journalism' is featured in this review as a Newsroom Book of the Week!
newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/05/bo... #BWBTexts
'Three terrific books.'
Paul Diamond reviews three of his favourite books of 2025, including two BWB titles!
Listen to Paul speak about Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' and Vincent O'Malley's 'The Meeting Place' on RNZ's Nine to Noon: www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
'Either way, without Māori, there would be no Pākehā. Without Pākehā, there would be no Māori. One had no meaning without the other, no reason for being.'
Great to see an extract from 'The Meeting Place' by Vincent O'Malley featured in the Sunday Star Times!
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'Atholl Anderson’s magisterial work, "The Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Māori" is one of those books you’ll never really finish reading ... it will reward continued engagement for years to come.'
Read David Veart's review in Kete Books: www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/revie...
‘The Good Economy’ by Craig Renney back on the Unity Books Wellington bestseller list! Grab a copy today.
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'Three of the best from 2025'
Paul Diamond includes Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' and Vincent O'Malley's 'Meeting Place' in a review of three favourite books from last year.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
'It is vivid and engaging and will change the way readers view New Zealand.'
John F. Wilson shares his thoughts on 'Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' by Jared Davidson in the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies: intellectdiscover.com/conten...
'I have never read a book like this before —deeply personal, yet relevant to everyone. Even the most seasoned climate scientist will learn a lot.'
Tara McAllister shares her thoughts on Nadine Hura's, 'Slowing the Sun', in Nature magazine: www.nature.com/articles/d415...
Congratulations to authors Charlotte Macdonald, Atholl Anderson, Shaun Hendy and Rebecca Macfie, who have all been longlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards!
The shortlist will be announced on 4 March 2026, with winners announced on 13 May 2026.
www.bwb.co.nz/news/bwb-autho...
'The Good Economy' by Craig Renney on the Unity Books Wellington bestseller list!
Pick up a copy today at your local bookshop. #BWBTexts
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'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.'
Peter Meihana's 'Privilege in Perpetuity' is reprinted and back in bookshops!
www.bwb.co.nz/books/privileg...
📢 Upcoming Event – Vincent O'Malley: Auckland and the Invasion of the Waikato 📢
Join Vincent O'Malley as he explores how the invasion of Waikato played out in Tāmaki Makaurau and the legacy it left behind.
⏰ 18 February, 6.30pm
📍 Devonport Library
📚 Free entry
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Fresh reprints of 'Bloody Woman' by Lana Lopesi and 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura in bookshops this month!
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‘The problems we face are a consequence of the economic model we have built up in Aotearoa over the past forty years. But that model is a choice – one that we can change if we wish to.’
Craig Renney's 'The Good Economy' is out now!
www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-good... #BWBTexts