Congrats to Dave Hansford for his book 'Kahurangi' winner of the 2025 New Zealand Mountain & Adventure Heritage Award. Nature writing at its finest, Dave focuses on the important biodiversity of Kahurangi National Park and the urgency to rescue this wilderness.
'Look Out', the artistic collaboration that celebrates the sublimity of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, by artists, Euan Macleod and Craig Potton, won 2025 New Zealand Mountain Book of the Year! We are thrilled for Euan and Craig.
Ned Barraud’s amazing book 'Tasting with your Feet' has been selected by the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust as one of their Notable Non-fiction books for 2024. Full of wonderful illustrations, this book explores the myriad and often bizarre ways that animals use their sense to go about their everyday lives.
Congrats to Desmond Bovey for winning the NZ Mountain and Adventure Heritage Book Award 2024 for his exquisite book 'Tongariro National Park: An artist’s field guide'. Also, congratulations to our finalists Alison Ballance for her book 'Takahē' and Guy Cotter for his book 'Everest Mountain Guide'.
Two Potton & Burton publications have been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, general non-fiction category, 'Takahē: Bird of Dreams' and 'Commune: Chasing a utopian dream' in Aotearoa. In her book, Alison Ballance charts the inspiring story of the rediscovery and then recovery of the takahē, one of New Zealand’s most intriguing birds. Olive Jones’s deeply personal…
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, Dutch-born, Nelson-based designer Floor van Lierop has featured in the Publishers Association of New Zealand’s Book Design Awards. She won the Te Herenga Waka University Press Award for Best Typography for her elegant, and beautifully considered work on He Ringatoi O Ngā Tūpuna by Hilary and John Mitchell, which we published in 2021. Working…
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards have recognised Floor van Lierop’s beautiful design of Hilary and John Mitchell’s book He Ringatoi o ngā Tūpuna: Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits and we are excited this book has been shortlisted in the Best Illustrated Book and Best Typography sections.
'He ringatoi o ngā tūpuna: Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits' by Hilary and John Mitchell longlisted in the illustrated non-fiction section. Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Māori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae and Kāpiti. Coates’s meticulous records of each subject’s…
'After Dark: Walking into the nights of Aotearoa' by Annette Lees was longlisted in the general non-fiction section of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. This elegantly written and engrossing book weaves memoir, social history and tales from the natural world to inspire us to engage with the fascinating world to be found out the front door at night.
We are thrilled that Peta Carey's book Tamatea Dusky won the Heritage Award and the 2021 NZ Mountain Book of the Year, as part of NZ Mountain, Film and Book Festival, an event which has become a much-loved annual institution in Wanaka, and an important focus on books about New Zealand’s outdoor world. The story of Tamatea/Dusky Sound is a…