Featured Books
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Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021
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Giving Birth to My Father
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Bonfires on the Ice
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All Her Lives
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How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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South by South: New Zealand and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
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Isaac Featherston – 'Petatone': A Colonial Life
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It's What He Would've Wanted
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Sick Power Trip
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This Compulsion In Us
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The Book of Guilt
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Forthcoming Books
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PRE-ORDERNew Days for Old
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PRE-ORDERThe Wish Child (B Format)
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PRE-ORDERRemote Sympathy (B Format)
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PRE-ORDERThe Book of Guilt (B Format)
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PRE-ORDERPeace and Quiet
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PRE-ORDERHave this Heart
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PRE-ORDERLucky Creatures
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Against the Tide: Aotearoa New Zealand in World Affairs
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Favourites
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Rebecca K Reilly
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Rebecca K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai) is...
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Elizabeth Knox
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Elizabeth Knox is an acclaimed novelist and essayist....
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Talia Marshall
Author photo: Ebony Lamb Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti...
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Geoff Park
Dr Geoff Park (1946–2009) is the author of Ngā Uruora (1995) and Theatre Country:...
About us
Te Herenga Waka University Press is a division of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and is Aotearoa's leading publisher of fiction and poetry, as well as scholarly and literary nonfiction.
The THWUP Blog
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Five THWUP books on the 2026 Ockham Shortlist
We are thrilled that five Te Herenga Waka University Press titles have been shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — congratulations to all our authors! Shortlisted for...
Five THWUP books on the 2026 Ockham Shortlist
We are thrilled that five Te Herenga Waka University Press titles have been shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards — congratulations to all our authors! Shortlisted for...
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Our absurd, yearning lives: launching Lyrical B...
Here is Robyn Marsack on Bill Manhire's Lyrical Ballads and Jenny Bornholdt's What to Wear.
Our absurd, yearning lives: launching Lyrical B...
Here is Robyn Marsack on Bill Manhire's Lyrical Ballads and Jenny Bornholdt's What to Wear.
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South by South: Hoist anchor and set sail
On Thursday 18 September at Unity Books Wellington we launched South by South, the latest book from Charles Ferrall.
South by South: Hoist anchor and set sail
On Thursday 18 September at Unity Books Wellington we launched South by South, the latest book from Charles Ferrall.
