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Leo White
For much of his life Leo White successfully combined two of his passions, aviation and photography
Leo White
For much of his life Leo White successfully combined two of his passions, aviation and photography, starting Whites Aviation and finding his photographs decorating hundreds of New Zealand homes.
John Mulgan
Author John Mulgan in uniform
NZ Journal of Photography
The newsleter of the New Zealand Centre for Photography
Photoforum magazine
Photoforum has been one of New Zealand's foremost photography magazines since 1974
Writing about New Zealand’s internal wars
Generations of New Zealanders are familiar with our exploits in two world wars and the impact of these conflicts on the nation. But how familiar are new Zealanders with our own internal wars of the 19th century?
Hairy Maclary
The publication in 1983 of Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy skyrocketed Lynley Dodd to the status of picture book legend. She and author Eve Sutton had won the prestigious Esther Glen award in 1975 for the classic My cat likes to hide in boxes.
Sports writing
The story of New Zealand writing wouldn't be complete without acknowledging the important role sport has played as a source of inspiration for many New Zealand writers. For some writers sport is a subject of loathing, but the reality is Kiwis can't seem to get enough of sports books.
Buller's birds
Sir Walter Buller’s comment that ‘the flesh of the pukeko [is equal] to that of the best English game’ distasteful. But Buller, the author of A history of the birds of New Zealand
Edmonds cookery book
The Edmonds cookery book has sold over 3 million copies since it was first published in 1908, making it the best-selling New Zealand book by far.
Littledene
Crawford Somerset's Littledene: a New Zealand rural community (1938) was a groundbreaking sociological study of a typical New Zealand small town - Oxford in North Canterbury. According to commentator Brian Easton, the book 'combines the wry insights of a sociologist and the lyric observations of poet'.
The Esther Glen Award
The Esther Glen Award for children and young adult books is our oldest literary prize
The writing of John A Lee
John A. Lee was a dynamic figure in the Labour Party from the 1920s until 1940. But Lee had a parallel career as a writer and later bookseller. His best-known novel, the largely autobiographical Children of the poor (1934), was described as a ‘sensational book on vice, poverty, misery'.
Tutira
Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station was first published in 1921 - this detailed environmental case study is now considered a classic of its type
Te Ao Hou
Te Ao Hou was a bilingual quarterly published by the Maori Affairs Department, and printed by Pegasus Press, 'to provide,' as its first issue said, 'interesting and informative reading for Maori homes ….. like a marae on paper, where all questions of interest to the Maori can be discussed'.
The story of Ponga and Puhihuia
'Surely the best of all the Maori stories', is how Margaret Orbell, then editor of the magazine Te Ao Hou, described the tale of the impetuous 17th-century lovers Ponga and Puhihuia.
State-funded history
The New Zealand government has a long history of promoting and publishing historical works of all kinds, ranging from the 50-plus volumes of Second World War history to the cutting-edge digital projects of the early 21st century.
Anno Domini 2000
In 1889 former Premier Julius Vogel wrote a futuristic novel entitled Anno domini 2000; or, woman's destiny in which women held the highest posts in government and poverty had vanished.
31 reasons to love NZ books and writing
A selection of stories about the history of Kiwi writing, writers and books – one for each day of NZ Book Month.
New Zealand Book Month
Kiwis love books. To celebrate New Zealand Book Month, we have come up with 31 reasons to love New Zealand books and writing. Check back each day in August for a new story about books, writers and their work.

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