Looking out across the rooftops of Hamilton City to the distant Kaimai Ranges and Maungatautari Mountain on New Year’s Day 2017, Campbell Forlong had no idea that instead of just ticking off these two running challenges from his bucket list, something bigger was about to happen in his 52nd year. After he’d completed three random marathon runs on consecutive weekends, his brother Paul phoned. “I see you’ve run three marathons in three weeks – you planning to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks?” he asked, half joking. It was all the invitation Campbell needed. What followed was an utterly life-changing adventure – running in the heat of the equator in the Republic of Congo, following wolf tracks in the snow in the Canadian Rockies, exploring the banks of the Seine to see the sun rise on the Eiffel Tower, returning home to discover unequalled beauty and peace on the backstreets of his hometown at midnight, and on many of New Zealand’s mountain trails. Along the way, during that year an equally important pursuit took place as Campbell began a journey into the meaning of love. How to love and be loved became even more important than distances and destinations – it was the birth of a soul-runner. Fifty-Two invites you to join that journey – 52 marathons in 52 weeks in Campbell’s 52nd year – and take a peek into this determined and passionate soul, inspiring you to reach for your own life goals and ambitions.
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​Tour Aotearoa A Gonzo Cycling Guide is a plunge into the world of bike-packing the length of New Zealand. The TA (Tour Aotearoa) is a bicycle trail running the length of NZ but with kinks and kinkiness in it. The result: 3000 kilometres of trail.

​In Invisible Intelligence, educationalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Welby Ings considers how schools measure intelligence and shows how narrow definitions of literacy and numeracy can lead to bright students being described as ‘behind’ and positioned as problems, when they are not. Ings mixes poignant, humorous and insightful storytelling with current research to explore the ways that some children’s intelligent approaches to problem-solving are dismissed or ignored, with devastating consequences for individuals and society. Yet Invisible Intelligence offers hope. Written with wisdom, experience and compassion, it is the kind of book that ‘puts an arm around the shoulders’ of those who love and work with kids whose intelligence is not recognised because they don’t learn the same way as other children. Pragmatic, wise and helpful, Invisible Intelligence shows what we can do better in education, and why it’s so important that we do.

​He Iti te Kupu contains nearly 500 sayings that draw a comparison between something (often the natural world) and people, events or contexts. Written in Māori and English, this accessible guide explains the use, meaning and context of a host of the principal figures of speech in te reo. Divided into themes, including birds of the land and sea, parts of the body, acknowledgements, animals and insects. The title derives from the proverb, ‘The words are small, yet their meanings are substantial,’ highlighting the importance of these sayings in the landscape of Māori language learning and speaking. This volume will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to use Māori figures of speech — whether in te reo or English — as well as students and speakers of the language.

​The year is 1862 and Mary Brogan has just made a daring decision. She will leave her home in Dunedin and travel alone to Dunstan Diggings to find her father. It has been seven years since Mary last saw her father. He was supposed to have followed Mary, her mother and her younger brother Billy from Australia to New Zealand, but he never turned up. Mary is determined to find out why. She refuses to believe that her father abandoned them. Mary has a major problem- a 13-year old girl cannot possibly travel alone and live safely among male miners. Mary decides to disguise herself as a boy called Harry Bannerman. Her disguise proves extremely effective and Mary is able to find work and live among the miners. However, many of the men she is around are unscrupulous and dangerous. They steal each other’s gold and vigilante justice is commonplace, given the lack of law enforcement. Mary finds herself involved with Jack Bloxham and George Harcourt and soon her life is in danger. However, Mary’s expedition is successful because she finds her father. He was right under her nose the whole time and she didn’t realise it. But does he have a reasonable explanation for why he failed to join his family, or did he just decide to keep the gold for himself?  

​​Atapo: A Guiding StarWhen her tribe falls in battle, Atapo is seized and forced into slavery by her enemies. Escape seems an impossible dream, yet somehow, she finds her way to the Pakeha mission station in Paihia.
There, she learns to read and write, and discovers the danger posed to Maori by settlers hungry for land.
Set against the backdrop of the Treaty of Waitangi, Atapo realizes her education can save her tribal lands and help her reclaim her destiny as the guiding star of her people.

​A harrowing true story of shipwreck and survival in the unforgiving sub-Antarctic waters off New Zealand.
Thirteen-year-old Samuel signs on as a cabin boy, eager for adventure aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. But fate takes a cruel turn. On March 6, 1907, the barque Dundonald crashes and sinks off the desolate Disappointment Island, part of the Auckland Islands group south of New Zealand.
Fifteen souls survive the wreck, stranded on a remote island. Facing a brutal winter, they battle starvation, the elements, and despair, clinging to hope of rescue. Will they survive until help arrives?

It is 1981 and Martin senses big trouble brewing at home.
The South African rugby team has been invited to tour New
Zealand. Martin’s sister, Sarah, is out to stop the tour in protest
against South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His rugby-mad
dad is equally determined that the tour should go ahead.
Martin wishes the whole thing would simply go away.
“You just fence-sit like a dumb bunny,” Sarah tells him.
But Martin would just rather not take sides.
Then a new school leads to a new friendship, and Martin is
faced with a choice. He can walk away, or he can become
involved in something that will end up being bigger than
anybody could have predicted.

​In 1838 when Mary Bumby's brother John decided to travel from England to be a missionary in New Zealand, she went with him. And she took two hives of live bees on their arduous six-month sea voyage.

​Jason Mason is a pretty average kid. The kind of kid who doesn't get chosen for the rugby team. The kind of kid who gets his lunchbox picked over by the school bully every day. The kind of kid who finds it hard to concentrate in class. The kind of kid who is, actually, a secret agent.
​Wait . . . What? You won't believe the crazy, laugh-out-loud, risky, save-the-world type stuff this pretty average kid gets up to. This book is destined to leave you itching for more Jason Mason adventures.