The latest in the New Zealand collection.

Te Ata o Tū : The Shadow of Tūmatauenga : the New Zealand Wars Collection of Te PapaMatiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald, Rebecca Rice

This major book deploys taonga from Te Papa's rich taonga Māori, history and art collections to explore the New Zealand Wars of 1845 to 1872.

Strong Words 3: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition selected by Emma Neale and Lynley Edmeades

Strong Words 3 showcases the best of the best of Aotearoa New Zealand's contemporary essays from 2021 and 2022. Strong Words 3 is packed with Aotearoa New Zealand's most compelling new writing on contemporary issues.

Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900-1956 Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge

The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the ‘secret world’ of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who – in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity – monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files.

Old Black Cloud : A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New ZealandJaqueline Leckie

The first cultural history of depression in Aotearoa, Old Black Cloud analyses its medical and social contexts through a historical lens.

The Team That Hit The Rocks: The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster Peter Jerram

Told for the first time from a survivor's perspective, The Team that Hit the Rocks is a powerful account of our nation's worst modern maritime disaster and the unbreakable bond formed by those who survived.

Our Land in Colour: A History of Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960 Brendan Graham with Jock Phillips

Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich history of Aotearoa New Zealand through the restoration of images never before seen in colour.