2019 has been a brilliant year for AUP with great new books released into the world. But along with that, we've reprinted 10 of our classic books, a record amount for us. This includes poetry classics such as Selina Tusitala Marsh's Tightrope and Dar

It's always a special moment when one of our books does well in the Nielsen New Zealand Bookscan charts, but doubly so when it tops the New Zealand list as Haare Williams: Words of a Kaumātua has done for us this week. Indeed the AUP team f

Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference, written and illustrated by Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh, was launched at Unity Books Auckland on 24 October 2019. The following poem was written by Selina to commemorate the occas

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Launches Ambitious New Initiative to Publish 100 Books in Te Reo Māori“Te kākahu korowai o te rangatira, he kōrero”“The emblem of an insightful leader is the cloak they wear, each feather symbolising the beauty, elegance

Peter Simpson recalls the moments that began a life-long study of one of New Zealand's most well-known artists, Colin McCahon.I first saw paintings by Colin McCahon in Christchurch more than half a century ago and immediately developed a deep i