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May new releases 2025

This May we’re publishing a bountiful treasure trove of new releases: searing new literary and international fiction, marvellously monstrous and wildly unique works of nonfiction, and a secret new release to be announced later this month ... 

Kataraina by Becky Manawatu is the searing sequel to Auē, the international award-winner and sublimely beautiful story of the Te Au whanau. In Auē, the voice of the character Aunty Kat is absent, she has been silenced. In this new telling, Kataraina is silent no longer. ⁠

Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber is a thrilling journey around the globe, discovering the stories behind every ghoul, ghost, demon, zombie and ogre imaginable. This truly unique work of nonfiction explores why we need these monsters and what they can teach us about ourselves. ⁠

The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bayzar is the captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. This international prize-winner explores revolution, oppression, resistance, and the absolute desire for freedom.

New Wild Order by Andy Hamilton is a life-affirming work of nonfiction. Take a step outside with forager, author, dad, and everyday fella Andy Hamilton as he answers his own call to the wild, and discovers how it might just save his life — and yours.⁠

The Invention of Amsterdam by Ben Coates is an essential guide to one of the world’s most remarkable and often misunderstood cities. Join Coates as he meanders past beautiful townhouses and glittering canals, all the while illuminating modern Amsterdam by explaining its past.⁠

Australian and NZ readers can go into the running to win a new release via INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY. Entries close Thursday 15 May.

Kataraina

The much-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Aue.

In Aue, eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in motion the ensuing tragedy, which resulted in Stu’s death. Aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but, silenced by abuse, her voice was absent from the story.

In Kataraina, Kat and her whanau take over the telling. As one, the famiily recounts her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of the swamp in her veins — the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of generations of…

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Monsterland

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?

In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we’ve invented, lurking in the dark and the wild places of the earth — giants, dragons, ogres, zombies, ghosts, demons — all with one thing in common: their ability to terrify.

His far-ranging adventure takes him across the world. He sits on the thrones of giants in Cornwall, visits the shrine of a beheaded ogre near Kyoto, travels to an eighteenth-century…

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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran.

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid.

1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.

1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid.…

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New Wild Order

This book is not about aspirational living; it’s about practical living. It’s about looking at the world around you and finding where it’s at fault, rather than blaming yourself. It’s about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve.

We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished, sunlight deficient, overly competitive, sedentary, and sleep deprived. Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs, our mental health at record lows. Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time, and our backs are killing us.…

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The Invention of Amsterdam

An essential guide to one of the world’s most remarkable, and often misunderstood, cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different.

When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity: to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade, at a slower pace. He devised ten walks, each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam’s history, from its humble beginnings in the early 1200s as a small fishing community through two Golden Ages, fuelled by the growth of the Dutch colonial empire, two world wars,…

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