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Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
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Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire at number 1 and 2 on Unity Wellington’s bestseller list this week, followed by MA grad Eva Wyles, and only then George Saunders!
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending February 13
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending February 13
Two brilliant new poetry collections hit the Wellington charts this week....
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February 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire at number 1 and 2 on Unity Wellington’s bestseller list this week, followed by MA grad Eva Wyles, and only then George Saunders!
Coming up in April: a new collection from one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets, who received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2025. Dinah Hawken's Peace & Quiet is powerful and illuminating. These poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resistance.
February 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Coming up in April: a new collection from one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets, who received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2025. Dinah Hawken's Peace & Quiet is powerful and illuminating. These poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resistance.
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Happy Publication Day + 1 @pacificraft.bsky.social
Happy publication day to Bill Manhire! Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling new collection.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Happy Publication Day + 1 @pacificraft.bsky.social
And happy publication day to Sir Geoffrey Palmer! A vital follow-up to his bestselling How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Published ahead of the 2026 NZ General Election, this new book by Sir Geoffrey Palmer invites public scrutiny of how Parliament wields its powers.
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 AM
And happy publication day to Sir Geoffrey Palmer! A vital follow-up to his bestselling How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Published ahead of the 2026 NZ General Election, this new book by Sir Geoffrey Palmer invites public scrutiny of how Parliament wields its powers.
Happy publication day to Bill Manhire! Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling new collection.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
February 12, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Happy publication day to Bill Manhire! Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling new collection.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don’t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.
Happy publication day to Breton Dukes! A debut novel from an excellent writer.
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos...
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos...
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Happy publication day to Breton Dukes! A debut novel from an excellent writer.
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos...
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos...
Happy publication day Kate Camp! When we announced Leather & Chains, you saw the author photo of adult Kate... well, here's her co-writer, Kate in 1986!
This diary is a book like no other and we are so thrilled to share it with you. Make sure to join us at the launch next week!
This diary is a book like no other and we are so thrilled to share it with you. Make sure to join us at the launch next week!
February 12, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Happy publication day Kate Camp! When we announced Leather & Chains, you saw the author photo of adult Kate... well, here's her co-writer, Kate in 1986!
This diary is a book like no other and we are so thrilled to share it with you. Make sure to join us at the launch next week!
This diary is a book like no other and we are so thrilled to share it with you. Make sure to join us at the launch next week!
Happy publication day to Jenny Bornholdt!
The poems in What to Wear observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things – like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.
The poems in What to Wear observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things – like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.
February 12, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Happy publication day to Jenny Bornholdt!
The poems in What to Wear observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things – like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.
The poems in What to Wear observe that life means doing ordinary and marvellous things – like going to Bunnings, falling asleep on the train, losing and finding poems, losing and dreaming of our mothers, loving, dying, and deciding what to wear.
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Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
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Lyrical Ballads
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend s...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
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Uncomplicated pleasures in a complicated world: Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt’s new poetry, reviewed
Uncomplicated pleasures in a complicated world: Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt’s new poetry, reviewed
Two of Aotearoa’s greatest poets are launching new collections today. We review them both....
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February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Uncomplicated pleasures in a complicated world: Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt’s new poetry, reviewed
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'I cannot recommend Lyrical Ballads and What to Wear enough. There is so much to be found inside each. So much there to soothe you, understand you, lead you on... Reading Manhire and Bornholdt is an uncomplicated pleasure in a complicated world.'
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Uncomplicated pleasures in a complicated world: Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt’s new poetry, reviewed
Two of Aotearoa’s greatest poets are launching new collections today. We review them both.
thespinoff.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
'I cannot recommend Lyrical Ballads and What to Wear enough. There is so much to be found inside each. So much there to soothe you, understand you, lead you on... Reading Manhire and Bornholdt is an uncomplicated pleasure in a complicated world.'
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Tomorrow night. Come one, come all.
We are starting the publishing year with a major double book launch! Join us to launch two stunning new poetry collections by Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt.
📖 Wednesday 11 February, 6pm
📖 Unity Books Wellington
📖 All welcome!
📖 Wednesday 11 February, 6pm
📖 Unity Books Wellington
📖 All welcome!
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Tomorrow night. Come one, come all.
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Happy Birthday to dear Fleur, who'd have been 92 today
#poetry
Fleur Adcock at her @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books Wgtn.
And at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024
Photo credit Mia Farlane
#poetry
Fleur Adcock at her @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books Wgtn.
And at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024
Photo credit Mia Farlane
February 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Happy Birthday to dear Fleur, who'd have been 92 today
#poetry
Fleur Adcock at her @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books Wgtn.
And at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024
Photo credit Mia Farlane
#poetry
Fleur Adcock at her @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books Wgtn.
And at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024
Photo credit Mia Farlane
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Damien Wilkins has written 14 books, including Delirious, the 2025 Ockham winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. He is also a musician/songwriter (recording as The Close Readers); his 2015 album The Lines Are Open was named one of that year's... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/dam...
Damien Wilkins: Seven Songs - Article | AudioCulture
Damien Wilkins in 2024. - Ebony Lamb
Damien Wilkins is the author of 14 books, including the novel Delirious (2024), which won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2025 Ockham NZ Book Awa...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Damien Wilkins has written 14 books, including Delirious, the 2025 Ockham winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. He is also a musician/songwriter (recording as The Close Readers); his 2015 album The Lines Are Open was named one of that year's... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/dam...
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Here are the books from Aotearoa New Zealand just published, or out soon that have caught my attention. christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... ^DR
#pukapuka
#pukapuka
February 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Here are the books from Aotearoa New Zealand just published, or out soon that have caught my attention. christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... ^DR
#pukapuka
#pukapuka
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Turning his hand to fiction, Dukes’ new novel Party Boy helped him process dark memories of Otago Boys’ High.
Author Breton Dukes wanted to write an exposé on high school abuse. The truth was darker than he imagined
Turning his hand to fiction, Dukes’ new novel Party Boy helped him process dark memories of Otago Boys’ High.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Turning his hand to fiction, Dukes’ new novel Party Boy helped him process dark memories of Otago Boys’ High.
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Coming up shortly in Auckland
This Sunday (8 February at 3pm) i'll be talking with Jordy Rosenberg at The Open Book in Tāmaki Makaurau. It's a free event. Jordy's new book Night Night Dawn is AMAZING and i can't wait to talk to him about it. theopenbook.co.nz/events/2026/...
Reading and Writing Political Fiction Now — The Open Book
Writers Jordy Rosenberg and Pip Adam discuss the literatures of a resurgent Left in the shadow of the Far Right. What is it to write and read political fiction in our current moment? @jordyrosenberg...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Coming up shortly in Auckland
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Breton Dukes on the front of the Sunday paper
February 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Breton Dukes on the front of the Sunday paper
We're having so many parties this month, and you're not going to want to miss any of them. The launch of Leather & Chains will be amazing!
⛓️ Tuesday 17 February, 6pm
⛓️ Meow bar, 9 Edward Street, Wellington
⛓️ All welcome!
More info here: www.facebook.com/share/17vrfm...
⛓️ Tuesday 17 February, 6pm
⛓️ Meow bar, 9 Edward Street, Wellington
⛓️ All welcome!
More info here: www.facebook.com/share/17vrfm...
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 AM
We're having so many parties this month, and you're not going to want to miss any of them. The launch of Leather & Chains will be amazing!
⛓️ Tuesday 17 February, 6pm
⛓️ Meow bar, 9 Edward Street, Wellington
⛓️ All welcome!
More info here: www.facebook.com/share/17vrfm...
⛓️ Tuesday 17 February, 6pm
⛓️ Meow bar, 9 Edward Street, Wellington
⛓️ All welcome!
More info here: www.facebook.com/share/17vrfm...
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We’ve been looking forward to this for a long time…
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 AM
We’ve been looking forward to this for a long time…
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Heads up. New Elizabeth Knox in the catalogue.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Heads up. New Elizabeth Knox in the catalogue.
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Still basking in yesterday's glow! Here are our lovely longlisted books hanging out together.
We're delighted to have seven books on the longlist for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Huge congratulations to these writers!
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We're delighted to have seven books on the longlist for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Huge congratulations to these writers!
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January 30, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Still basking in yesterday's glow! Here are our lovely longlisted books hanging out together.
We're delighted to have seven books on the longlist for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Huge congratulations to these writers!
teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/s...
We're delighted to have seven books on the longlist for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Huge congratulations to these writers!
teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/s...
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Currently on order!
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Join us to launch Party Boy, the highly anticipated debut novel by Breton Dukes!
🎉 Sunday 15 February, 3pm
🎉 Woof! bar, 368 Moray Place, Dunedin
🎉 All welcome!
🎉 Sunday 15 February, 3pm
🎉 Woof! bar, 368 Moray Place, Dunedin
🎉 All welcome!
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Currently on order!
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3... ^MT
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3... ^MT