Potton & Burton

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.

25/11/2024

More spy talk; this time, on RNZ Nine to Noon, with a solid review of Maire Leadbeater's book. Huzzah!

Dean Bedford reviews The Enemy Within by Maire Leadbeater published by Potton and Burton

25/11/2024

When surveillance is used to penalise activists working for social change in Aotearoa. Maire Leadbetter's newly published book, 'The Enemy Within,' turns the spotlight on surveillance and takes a swing at state intrusion in our lives.

Maire Leadbeater is a tangata tiriti author whose new book 'The Enemy Within' discusses the human cost of surveillance and impacts on activism.

22/11/2024

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13/11/2024

On Monday night our history of Forest & Bird (F&B), 'Force of Nature/Te Aumangea o te ao Tūroa' was launched at Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Ecosanctuary in Wellington. Forest & Bird president Kate Graham, authors David Young and Naomi Arnold, publisher Robbie Burton (photographed on the left), and Forest & Bird CEO Nicola Toki spoke to a packed house. It was a fittingly grand occasion for this landmark book, with a huge cake featuring the book cover.

In the group photo below, author Naomi Arnold, F&B editor Caroline Wood, F&B researcher Michael Pringle, and author David Young pause before the formal cake-cutting ceremony.

Huzzah, here's to F&B's conservation mahi for over 100 years!

Department of Conservation

12/11/2024

Ned Barraud’s amazing book 'Tasting with Your Feet' has been selected by Storylines Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa as one of their Notable Non-Fiction Books for 2024. Full of wonderful illustrations, Ned's book explores the myriad and often bizarre ways that animals use their senses to go about their everyday lives.

04/11/2024

“If Pākehā knew what their own cultures led them to believe and to do and to act, they would understand much more clearly how different their culture is from Māoridom and would be able to look at it more objectively."

Te Ao Māori News spoke to Lorraine McLeod about her new book 'Leave Your Big Boots at the Door'.

Lorraine McLeod’s new book Leave Your Big Boots at the Door: Pākehā Confronting Racism Against Māori came after a challenge by Tā Toby Curtis for her to write about racism.

04/11/2024

When does graffiti become art? Writer, landscape architect, and sailor Matt Vance elevates the ordinary to the extraordinary in 'Innerland: A Journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand,' which the venerable Steve Braunias over at Newsroom describes as a 'splendid new book.' Huzzah, thanks, Steve!

An author tampers with public property in a small North Otago town.