Aotearoa New Zealand Books

This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Mic...

New Zealand has a huge range of backcountry huts, most of which are available for public use. Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-b...

Night Time 5 p.m. Dusk 6 p.m. Close of Day 7 p.m. Opening Nights 8 p.m. Where Are You? 9 p.m. Night Work 10 p.m. Night Walking 11 p.m. Night Life M...

Data flows around the world as computers trade in 0s and 1s, silently making decisions that affect all of us, every day. Meanwhile, we humans shout...

'What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.' In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigra...

Under The Radar

This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own me...

This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English mi...

Te Ao Hurihuri: The Changing World shows Maori engaged energetically in building and rebuilding their communities through the twentieth and twenty-...

'If you take the track past the big white shack to the tidal flats where the mud is black If you sneak to the left between the tides you'll find th...

Kiwi Farmers' Guide to Life does just that, telling stories of New Zealand farmers, agribusiness entrepreneurs and even a couple of scientists. Eac...

It's March 2020 and Liza, her husband and two teenage children are at home in Auckland in level-four lockdown due to Covid-19. Reflections with her...

Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Ma...

Hand In Hand

Empathy is no longer optional for leaders who strive for a deeper understanding and connection with their staff. Become a leader who others truly w...

Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an ...

What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle's definition of history as 'the biography of great men', and focused ins...

Format 285mmx210mm 56 page 100gsm paper Children will love this kiwi colouring book, hours of fun and entertainment.

David Ling is an Auckland-based publisher of both adult and children's books. He created the Duck Creek Press imprint in 2010 and is also the autho...

Whole Again

Do birds have teeth? How high can a flea jump? Why don't worms have legs? No matter how crazy or quirky your question from the WHICH? to the WHAT? ...

What adult does not delight in engaging with a child when reading a 'look and find' book. Where is it? is an original take on this concept, a New Z...

The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list first appeared in 1986. But what do these fig...

In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - research which was to lead to his st...