Out now: Oratia Books Catalogue 2021, available in print or PDF
It's a pleasure to share the Oratia Books Catalogue 2021, which is now out in print and digital form.
Vale Gordon Ell
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of author, publisher and environmentalist Gordon Ell last Thursday after a short illness.
First Encounters — the fourth in Oratia Book’s growing NZ Series
Edited by father-and-daughterauthors Gordon Ell and Sarah Ell, First Encounters: New Zealand 1642–1840 covers nearly 200 years from Abel Tasman in 1642 and Joseph Banks in 1769, to early settlers such as John Logan Campbell in 1840 — in first-person accounts that preserve the English of the times.
New book in Māori and Samoan for Auckland Libraries
Auckland Libraries whānau recently celebrated the launch of two children's books that help fill a need for resources in languages other than English.