The Oratia Books Catalogue 2023 is out now in print and digital form.
The new-look catalogue is 32 pages in length, offering the scope to showcase the 16 new books we are publishing this year, along with over 100 backlist titles.
This year brings a more diverse range of books than ever, from an ever-more diverse inhouse team — as noted in the catalogue introduction that follows with screenshots of relevant pages.
Thanks to Cheryl Smith for the catalogue design and content, and Simon and team at Haysom Print for the fine print job.
Haere mai, welcome and benvenuti to the Oratia Books Catalogue 2023.
After six years our foldout catalogue format gives way to a booklet, largely because there was no longer space to present our growing list of books adequately. This format offers a more detailed look at both new and existing titles; to learn more visit www.oratia.co.nz.
For our publishing and our people also, 2023 represents development. In 2021 Oratia committed to a diversity, equity and inclusion policy that aims to have our books and our workplace embody different ethnicities and languages, sexual orientations and genders, cultures and abilities.
We have an expanding multicultural, multilingual team. Hirini Tane (Ngāti Kawa, Ngāti Rahiri) is now guiding our Māori publishing as Kaiārahi/Counsellor, and Ella Fischer (originally from Austria) has joined as a part-time Assistant Editor.
You can see this in our new titles: from the bilingual Moana Oceania Series books (in Cook Islands Māori, Samoan and English) to Philippa Werry’s survey of migration in the latest New Zealand Series title. Ron Crosby and Paul Moon challenge received histories in their substantial books, respectively on an overlooked but pivotal episode in the New Zealand Wars, and Auckland in the twentieth century.
Te reo Māori me ōna tikanga is fundamental to Oratia. This year’s pukapuka Māori celebrate the language of humour in Te Reo Kapekape, take Robyn Kahukiwa’s stunning Ngā Atua: Māori Gods into a bilingual paperback, and bring back to print Te Rangi Hīroa’s masterpiece Vikings of the Sunrise in the New Zealand Classics series.
We now bring our selected books from overseas authors under the new Five Oceans (Moana e Rima) umbrella. Not incidentally, this year’s addition, Lucky Me, addresses disability — extending the diversity of local titles Toku Whānau Rerehua/My Beautiful Family (written in te reo Māori about rainbow families) and The Book that Wouldn’t Read/Te Pukapuka Ka Kore E Pānuihia (separate English and te reo editions, reluctant readers).
Not to take things too seriously, the New Bum! phenomenon rocks on globally! There are no less than three new titles from super-duo Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird, all publishing simultaneously in New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK. Ross also teams up with Belinda O’Keefe for You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, a bilingual romp inspired by Monty Python!
From a small publishing house in the Oratia valley, we seek to open for you a wide window onto New Zealand and the world.
Thank you for reading.
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