Potton & Burton

09/04/2025

Longtime peace and human rights activist, Maire Leadbetter, tackles state surveillance head-on in her punchy book, 'The Enemy Within,' and finds it wanting. As Victor Billot states in his review for Landfall Review Online, 'Leadbeater wants to see the SIS gone. Her compiling of facts builds a relentless case. Her research and analysis skills are generally superior to the official intelligence gatherers and the flat-footed guesswork she pulls out of the files.'

Victor Billot on The Enemy Within: The human cost of state surveillance in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Maire Leadbeater

26/03/2025

Stories of Pākehā working to eliminate racism against Māori in Aotearoa. All advocate for a society where Māori regain tino rangatiratanga (power and control) over their lives.

Leave Your Big Boots at the Door sees 17 Pākehā discuss the history of racism against Māori in Aotearoa, and explain what they have done, and are still doing, to prevent it. The effects of colonisation and the racism that accompanies it are seen in the lives of many Māori living in the inequitab...

11/12/2024

Huzzah about 'Shelter from the Storm: The story of New Zealand’s Backcountry Huts' and 'Geckos & Skinks: The remarkable lizards of Aotearoa' being among Steve Braunias's fave illustrated books for 2024. No mean feat; warmest congrats to our wonderful authors and photographers.

Newsroom

ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias selects the 10 most beautiful illustrated coffee table books of the year.

11/12/2024

And the lucky winner of our FB competition is Cynthia Roberts. Warmest congratulations to you, Cynthia! Please DM us with your postal address so we can send you these books before Christmas.

Gratitude to everyone who entered the competition; we loved reading your comments and wish you and your families a magical festive season and relaxing summer break.

Safe travels, warmest wishes one and all!

06/12/2024

We're so proud of Dave Hansford's jaw-droppingly stunning book 'Kahurangi.' Seems Harry Broad is too. Huzzah. One for the Christmas book-buying list.

RNZ

Harry Broad reviews Kahurangi by Dave Hansford published by Potton & Burton

06/12/2024

🥳 What a thrill to see two of our children's books to appear on the Listener’s 50 best kids’ books of 2024 list!

📖 SAVING WĀNANGA by Kris Herbert & Dïne
"The story of a sassy kea rescued with signs of lead poisoning by a police officer (he sang to it on the trip to the vet) is told by a science journalist with visual help from a French Kiwi living in Glenorchy."

📖 TASTING WITH YOUR FEET by Ned Barraud
"A catchy title for a superb book, covering all the senses that humans and other animals use to, well, make sense of the world."

🎅 Check out the list in full in this week's Listener, it will make Christmas book buying for the children in your life very easy!

New Zealand Listener

05/12/2024

What's in a landscape? When is it personal; when is it collective? Matt Vance talked to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon about the pull of our innerland and that of our ancestors.

Make sure Matt's newly published book 'Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand' is on your Christmas gift-buying list; your favourite bookseller will be delighted to sell you a copy.

Forget the Southern Alps in winter. A new book from Banks Peninsula-based author, writer and filmmaker Matt Vance focuses on New Zealand's everyday - or perhaps less interesting - landscapes.