G.V. Hudson – an extraordinary story Few people know the story of G.V. Hudson, an amateur entomologist who studied, collected and painted New Zealand’s insect fauna between the 1800s and 1946. His massive personal collection of insects is in Te Papa, but perhaps his most extraordinary legacy are the seven books that he published…
Whites Aviation hand-coloured photos revisited Wellington author and collector Peter Alsop would have to be one of New Zealand’s most prolific authors. Since 2013 he has produced a steady stream of glorious, usually large, heavily illustrated books on mid-century New Zealand art and design. These are all done in his spare time, quite apart from his day job as a…
The Great Unknown wins Geoff Spearpoint’s lauded book, that we published last year, The Great Unknown: Mountain Journeys in the Southern Alps is the inaugural winner of the New Zealand Mountain Book of the Year Award, part of the NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival, held annually in Wanaka. We are thrilled for Geoff, for his book has made a…
2020 Storylines Notable Books Storylines is one of our most important organisations dedicated to promoting children’s literature in Aotearoa. One of their annual activities is the Notable Books List, in which an expert panel selects the highest quality books in five genres published during the previous year. Earlier this year we were delighted to have three books selected from our…