Potton & Burton

19/11/2025

Macro photographer and author of newly minted book, 'A Hidden World,' talks about her passion for fungi and why it has that X Factor.

The Northern Advocate

17/11/2025

Feathers are extraodinary and wildlife artist Niels Meyer-Westfield has been enthrall to them since childhood. Now, in his stunning new book 'Feathers of Aotearoa,' he shares his passion for our avian creatures and their many and varied plumage. He also tells us why he loves Tui and Bellbirds so much.

RNZ

Nature artist, Niels Meyer-Westfeld joins Culture 101 to talk about his new book Feathers of Aotearoa: an illustrated journal.

03/11/2025

OK, so Grant Robertson knocked everyone's proverbials off at Queenstown Writers Festival, but Peta Carey's event sold out. Also, the remaining 75 copies of the print run of her book, 'The Hollows Boys,' romped out the door within 10 minutes. No wonder it's a bestseller. Curator of Newsroom's Reading Room salon, Steve Braunias, was both in front of and behind the mike, and then writing about it as per below. What a polymath.

Steve Braunias reports on this weekend’s Queenstown Writers Festival

31/10/2025

'The author of an extremely exciting book about helicopter recovery will appear this weekend at the Queenstown Writers Festival. Tickets to her Saturday session, alongside Tina Makereti, Laurence Fearnley and Sonya Wilson, are available online,' writes Steve Braunias over on Newsroom. This, in tandem with announcing Peta's book, 'The Hollows Boys,' being a non-fiction bestseller. Huzzah!

The latest NielsenIQ BookScan chart of NZ bestsellers, plus win an anniversary edition of good old Landfall

24/10/2025

Peta Carey doesn't pull any punches in her new book 'The Hollows Boys: A Story of Three Brothers & the Fiordland Deer Recovery Era.' Delving into a high-octane world, she ponders the nature of fate; the roll of the dice that claimed lives and spared others. It's a candid, at times, confronting read, about a unique time and place in our history.

RNZ

In the 1970s, as the deer recovery era took off , the Hollows brothers - Gary, Mark and Kim were drawn from the north, one by one, to Fiordland.

23/10/2025

OK, so this is a pretty big deal. Anna Yeoman's book, 'Geckos & Skinks,' has been recognised in Australasia's prestigious Whitley Awards, convened by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW - RZS NSW. Winning the Conservation Zoology category, the Whitley's recognise the best publications profiling Australasia's unique wildlife.

Department of Conservation

Paradise Parrots and Regent Honeyeaters, New Zealand geckos and native bees, marine biology and the fossil fauna of ancient Queensland have been placed in the spotlight as the Royal Zoological Society of NSW announces their prestigious Whitley Awards for zoological literature.

22/10/2025

Fungi are awesome for the planet and us. They're often hidden in plain sight as we wander through the forest or bush, but thanks to the passion and expertise of macro photographer Paula Vigus, we can now appreciate them more fully. Paula talked to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ Afternoons about her book, 'A Hidden World'; when and where to find fungi; and how she learned her craft.

Department of Conservation Forest & Bird

A new photography book has captured the incredible hidden world of New Zealand fungi Paula Vigus provided the acclaimed photography for the best-selling book - 'Fungi of Aotearoa: A curious forager's field guide' and she's back with her own book 'A Hidden World - Discovering the Beauty of New Zealan...

22/10/2025

Lyn Potter's review of Niels's book, 'Feathers of Aotearoa,' on NZ Booklovers is nothing short of spectacular. Talking about his exquisite illustrations, she also makes comparisons between his work and that of legendary artist Raymond Ching. Blush.

Department of Conservation Forest & Bird Birds New Zealand

Feathers of Aotearoa is a stunning book created by artist Niels Meyer-Westfeld in which he explores the astounding diversity of feathers of Aotearoa’s native birds. It is exquisitely illustrated with his many pencil drawings of sets of feathers and the birds they belong to. The first part of his b...

20/10/2025

Fungi are surely nature's unsung heroes. Now, thanks to stunning, new book, 'A Hidden World' by Paula Vigus, one of our leading fungi macro photographers, we can all appreciate their beauty and the vital role they play in conservation.

Department of Conservation

Paula Vigus took the stunning full colour photographs for Liv Sisson’s hugely popular book Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Guide, in which she introduced many of us to where to find, identify and use fungi. Now in A Hidden World, Paula Vigus has again used her talent for macro photography...

17/10/2025

As Peta Carey's bestselling book, 'The Hollows Boys,' stands proud at #5 in Aotearoa's top non-fiction titles, Newsroom shares an exclusive extract. Life back then was pretty wild!

'No one liked us', a helicopter pilot remembers of deer hunting in Te Urewera.

17/10/2025

Doing the mahi in Kahurangi and writing a book about it. Sandy and Robin Toy are absolute legends and, as volunteers for Friends of Flora (FOF), are part of one of Aotearoa's most successful community-led conservation projects. They talked to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon about how FOF has helped to restore Kahurangi over the past 25 years.

Department of Conservation

On the eastern edge of the Kahurangi National Park lies the Flora Stream area.

15/10/2025

The wonder of childhood and the healing power of wild places are celebrated in newly published children's book, 'Emilie Walks Te Araroa.' Time to swap our screens for streams and discover our beautiful whenua.

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