Awa Press

Awa Press Award-winning publishers of intelligent, thought-provoking non-fiction www.awapress.com Our name is derived from a Māori word meaning river or channel.

Awa Press is an independent, innovative and wholly New Zealand-owned company. It was founded in 2003 to publish and promote the best of contemporary non-fiction by New Zealand and overseas authors. We would like to think of ourselves as a channel from which a river of books flows. We have two passions: one, of course, is books. We love books that are creative, imaginative, daring and accomplished.

All the people who have written the books on our list are, to our way of thinking, heroes. Anyone who sits facing a blank page (or more often a screen), day after day, translating thoughts into words, deserves to become a millionaire. Most, though, will be lucky to make a few dollars. They write for another reason, love of words perhaps, or just the thrill of seeing someone reading their book on a bus. And then there are the people who, through extraordinary alchemy, turn these writers' manuscripts into things of beauty - editors, designers, artists, typesetters, printers. The New Zealanders who do this work for us are second to none in the world. Despite doom-saying, dire warnings, and the inexorable march of the reality TV show, the human race has continued to make a cup of tea and curl up with a good book. We hope you will curl up with ours.

10/10/2023

Max Oettli on A Message for Nasty by Roderick Fry

New Zealander's gripping book "destined to become a war classic"
22/11/2022

New Zealander's gripping book "destined to become a war classic"

From explosions announcing the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in December 1941 at the start of the book, through brushes with horrifying internment camps and on to a heart-stopping escape by sampan ...

Men in suits making big mistakes and people die. Utterly horrendous reminder of the horror and injustice of Pike.
07/02/2022

Men in suits making big mistakes and people die. Utterly horrendous reminder of the horror and injustice of Pike.

Rebecca Macfie on the ninth edition - ninth! - of her classic book about the tragedy at Pike River Mine

Yea! New edition of 'Tragedy at Pike River Mine' by Rebecca Macfie is in the house all ready for Christmas purchasing at...
15/12/2021

Yea! New edition of 'Tragedy at Pike River Mine' by Rebecca Macfie is in the house all ready for Christmas purchasing at

On a sunny afternoon in November 2010, a massive explosion rocked the underground Pike River coal mine, deep in a mountain range in New Zealand’s South Island. A hundred and one minutes later two ashen men stumbled from the mine’s entrance. Twenty-nine men remained trapped inside. Samples reveal...

Book now to hear Rebecca Macfie talking about her brilliant and acclaimed biography of union leader and medicinal cannab...
23/09/2021

Book now to hear Rebecca Macfie talking about her brilliant and acclaimed biography of union leader and medicinal cannabis advocate Helen Kelly, Verb Wellington, November 7

Acclaimed writer Rebecca Macfie speaks with journalist Jo Moir about Rebecca’s biography of the brilliant leader, Helen Kelly.

28/05/2021

The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Helen Kelly: Her Life by Rebecca Macfie (Awa Press, $50) From the publisher’s blurb: “Ke...

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