'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…
Congratulations to George Gibbs! 'An Exquisite Legacy' has been shortlisted in the 2021 Ockhams Book Awards - Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction. “The four finalists are standout examples of a dazzlingly broad range of passions, from the arts and sciences to food, adventure and the outdoors, distilled into beautiful and engaging works,” says category convenor Dale Cousens. Check…
George Gibb's wonderful book 'An Exquisite Legacy' has been longlisted in the illustrated non-fiction category of the 2021 Ockham NZ Books Awards. Check out the full list of finalists.
In recent years we have particularly valued being able to work with designer Floor van Lierop from design company This is Them. Originally from the Netherlands, she has designed a number of fine books for Potton & Burton, including, New Zealand Nature Heroes by Gillian Candler, which was published in 2019.We are thrilled that this book has been shortlisted in…
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…
We are thrilled to have New Zealand's Great White Sharks listed as a finalist in the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction category. Check out the full list of finalists here. Good luck Alison!