Congratulations to Ingrid Horrocks, winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2026 with her short story collection All Her Lives π
Here is Ingrid at the awards ceremony with our Publisher, Fergus Barrowman, and our Editor (MΔori) Jasmine Sargent, who edited Ingrid's book.
Photos: LK Creative.
Huge congratulations to Tina Makereti, winner of the General Non-Fiction Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026, for her remarkable essay collection This Compulsion In Us. Here she is on the red carpet with our Publisher, Fergus Barrowman, and with her close writing-friend and fellow winner, Ingrid Horrocks π
Photos: LK Creative
MΔlΕ le taumafai, congratulations to Nafanua Purcell Kersel, winner of the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her stunning debut collection, Black Sugarcane. We couldn't be prouder β€οΈ
Photos: LK Creative
Huge congratulations to Catherine Chidgey, a regular feature at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards now, with two Acorn prizes already under her belt, and shortlisted this year with The Book of Guilt. What an accomplishment! Here she is on the red carpet with our Publisher, Fergus Barrowman.
Photos: LK Creative
Huge congratulations to Erik Kennedy for making the shortlist at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with Sick Power Trip, and for a fantastic reading at the prize ceremony. Here's Erik on the red carpet with our Publisher, Fergus Barrowman.
Photos: LK Creative
Not long now! Join us for the Wellington launch of Lucky Creatures, a brilliant debut essay collection by Joseph Trinidad. The book will be launched by Mikee Sto Domingo.
π Monday 11 May, 6pm
π Unity Books Wellington
π Free entry β all welcome!
We're so looking forward to celebrating New Days for Old tonight at Unity Books Wellington!
Scroll through to see some of the things that critics have been saying about the book...
Congratulations James, on another fantastic collection π
Cover: Todd Atticus
Author photo: Russell Kleyn
Sharing a brand new cover for The Rehearsal, the debut novel by Booker prize-winner author Eleanor Catton.
This new paperback format, featuring cover artwork by Yvonne Todd, is publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand this July from Te Herenga Waka University Press.
Cover design by Todd Atticus.
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It has been a joy to watch Night, Ma go out into the world! π Elizabeth Knox has written something truly extraordinary and given us the gift of seeing as she sees. We couldn't be prouder to have published this book. And the reception has been wonderful β here are some of the things people have been saying...
Not long now! Join us to celebrate the arrival of two excellent new poetry collections: New Days for Old by James Brown and Peace & Quiet by Dinah Hawken. The books will be launched by Jenny Bornholdt.
πΌ Thursday 23 April, 6pm
πΌ Unity Books Wellington
πΌ Free entry β all welcome!
Introducing NOVA by Tim Corballis, publishing 11 June 2026! πͺ
Set on a self-contained world launched into deep time, NOVA unfolds through conversations between Kalla, a former councillor uneasy with consensus and ceremony, and System β the voice of all NOVA's mechanisms and processes, curious and anxious, knowing everything and somehow nothing at all. Together they circle questions of democracy, labour, memory, entropy and love.
Formally inventive, unabashedly brainy, and β as Alice Miller says β 'strangely joyful.'
This is Tim Corballis's first novel since Our Future Is in the Air, and we think it's something special.
Cover: Todd Atticus
Author photo: Ebony Lamb
