Mākaro Press

31/07/2025

The advance copies of Empathy by Bryan Walpert, Author have arrived! Shown here by Mākaro Press’s Paul Stewart, the book’s designer and typesetter. Empathy launches in September.

29/07/2025

Chuffed Kataraina is so beloved by booksellers it made the shortlist of the Booksellers Choice Award. Congrats to Gareth Ward and Louise Ward for winning with the latest in their Bookshop Detectives series.

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📚 We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Adult Booksellers’ Choice Award!

The incredible finalists are:

✨️ Amma by Saraid de Silva (Moa Press)

✨️ The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House New Zealand)

✨️ The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson (Allen & Unwin New Zealand)

✨️ Kataraina by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press)

✨️ Foraging New Zealand by Peter Langlands (Penguin Random House New Zealand)

The Booksellers’ Choice Awards are voted on by Aotearoa’s booksellers to reflect their top recommendation from the books released in the past year.

Congratulations to all the finalists! The winner will be announced on 19 July at the Book Industry Awards. If you don’t already have your ticket, now’s the time to secure your spot. Head to the Book Industry Awards page on our website to find all the information.

29/07/2025

Auē by Becky Manawatu — in the Whitcoulls 100 six years after we launched. And still selling well in bookstores across the motu.

After six years since publication, it’s incredible to see Auē by Becky Manawatu maintaining a spot on the Whitcoull’s Top 100 list Surely this is a record for a New Zealand novel? So thrilled that Becky is working with Angela Cudd to develop the scripts for a TV series. Kia kaha!

08/07/2025

Thank you Booksellers Aotearoa NZ for loving Kataraina by Becky Manawatu as much as we do.

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📚 We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Adult Booksellers’ Choice Award!

The incredible finalists are:

✨️ Amma by Saraid de Silva (Moa Press)

✨️ The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth and Louise Ward (Penguin Random House New Zealand)

✨️ The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson (Allen & Unwin New Zealand)

✨️ Kataraina by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press)

✨️ Foraging New Zealand by Peter Langlands (Penguin Random House New Zealand)

The Booksellers’ Choice Awards are voted on by Aotearoa’s booksellers to reflect their top recommendation from the books released in the past year.

Congratulations to all the finalists! The winner will be announced on 19 July at the Book Industry Awards. If you don’t already have your ticket, now’s the time to secure your spot. Head to the Book Industry Awards page on our website to find all the information.

29/05/2025

“Where Auē burnt, Kataraina heals; a soothing, rinsing, complex novel.”

“Kataraina is a generous, expansive, masterful novel that drenches up and fills in at once.”

Thank you, Tara June Winch, for your generous and masterful review in that swims in the river of ‘s beautiful book and really sees the beauty there.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/30/kataraina-becky-manawatu-review

29/05/2025

“Where Auē burnt, Kataraina heals; a soothing, rinsing, complex novel.”

“Kataraina is a generous, expansive, masterful novel that drenches up and fills in at once.”

Thank you, Tara June Winch, for your generous and masterful review in The Guardian that swims in the river of Becky Manawatu’s beautiful book and really sees the beauty there.

Both a sequel and prequel to the Māori and Pākehā author’s acclaimed debut, Auē, Kataraina is filled with heart-achingly beautiful vignettes

06/05/2025

At Featherston Booktown this weekend, our publisher Mary McCallum asks award-winning fiction writers Becky Manawatu, Carl Shuker and Pip Adam about what it's like getting their novels out into the world as new editions in English and in translation and converted to audiobooks and movies and the rest. Sounds like it will be an illuminating hour.

𝗔𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗔 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘
More New Zealand authors are seeing their work going overseas than ever before – in UK and US editions,
translations, audiobooks, eBooks, streamed series and movies. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁𝘂, 𝗣𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 and 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗸𝗲𝗿 will talk with publisher 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗺 about how it happens, and what it means for them and for Aotearoa literature as a whole.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀:
📅 Saturday, 10 May 2025
⏰ 11:30am
📍 Featherston School Hall
🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/aotearoa-over-there/featherston

Eventfinda

06/05/2025

Looking forward to this one! Becky Manawatu and Mel Parsons were school friends at Buller High and both had new work out last year – Becky's Kataraina and Mel's Sabotage. Anika Moa will ask these two creative women about their friendship and creativity and Westport. Thoroughly recommend this one at the wonderful Featherston Booktown this weekend!

𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗪Ā𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘: 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗞𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗟
When singer 𝗠𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 and author 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁𝘂 exploded on to the Aotearoa arts scene there was nowhere more proud than Westport. Mel and Becky grew up in and around Westport and were in the same year at Buller High School. Both of them have recently launched exciting new work: Sabotage and Kataraina. Join 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗠𝗼𝗮 (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri) as she asks two of Aotearoa’s best how much they inspire each other and what it is in the Westport water.

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀:
📅 Sunday, 11 May 2025
⏰ 11:30am
📍 Featherston Kiwi Hall
🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/westport-wahine-becky-and-mel/featherston

Eventfinda NZ

21/03/2025

Becky Manawatu at Auckland Writers Festival in May is on stage with two of our writing heroes! Extraordinary. I think this one will book up fast.

News that Colm Tóibín was returning to the world of his New York Times bestseller Brooklyn – 15 years after its publication, and 20 years later in its characters’ lives – with Long Island was met with phenomenal excitement from readers worldwide.

29/01/2025

Kataraina makes the longlist of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and what a longlist! Aotearoa fiction is in wild and wonderful good health. Congratulations to all ten authors. Proud of you Becky Manawatu. Ka rawe!

The 2025 Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist is announced! Congratulations to this year's Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction nominees.



Te Herenga Waka University Press Penguin Books Mākaro Press Otago University Press Ultimo Press

22/12/2024

Bestsellers at for 2024 and there’s Kataraina by nestling in.

Thank you Unity staff and Welly readers for your support of Aotearoa fiction.

16/12/2024

The stunning cover for Kataraina by Becky Manawatu in Australia, the UK and US. The publisher is Scribe Publications and publication in Australia is April 2025. We are beyond excited to see Becky’s book heading out into the wider world to join Auē.

Huge thanks to Marika Webb-Pullman and Jessy Reese and the rest of the Scribe team, and to our agent Nadine Rubin Nathan of High Spot Literary who brokered the deal.