Oratia brings the best of book publishing to readers and clients alike.
Oratia is a publisher of books based outside Auckland, with distribution across New Zealand and representation in many parts of the world.
Our multicultural team collectively has decades of experience in all aspects of publishing and a commitment to quality values in editorial, design, print and production.
In addition, we offer our publishing and communications skills to organisations wanting to publish privately.
Whether it’s a great book or quality publishing services, you’ll find the right home with Oratia.
Our name comes from the beautiful forest area in which we live and work, west of Auckland in the Waitakere Ranges.
Ō-rā-tía is a Māori name that means ‘Place of long-lingering sunshine’, from a traditional story in which the wife of the West Wind paused here to sunbathe.
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Fifty years of the Spirit of Adventure
A Spirit Companion
Celebrating the first 50 years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust
Roger McDonald
Sweeping stories of the sea and personal growth from those who have sailed the iconic Spirit of Adventure
‘All a trainee needed to feel — could not help feeling — was that their feet were on the decks of something pretty big, and change was happening all around them just by the motion that happened when the wind blew.’
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Telling the story of migration in latest addition to The NZ Series
New Zealand Migration
Philippa Werry
New book in NZ Series explores the history of our diverse migrant nation, from the first settlers to the latest arrivals
Despite all New Zealanders being either migrants or descendants of migrants, until now there has been no single book on the topic.
In concise chapters, Philippa Werry explores topics ranging from the first Polynesian navigators to European colonisers, Chinese immigrants during the gold rush to ten-pound Poms, Pacific Island communities to the impact of Covid-19 on immigration.
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Classic of New Zealand and Pacific writing returns in new edition
Vikings of the Sunrise
by Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck)
Foreword by Paora Tapsell
One of the greatest accounts ever of Pacific settlement returns to print this week, with a new foreword, in our New Zealand Classics series.
Truly a masterpiece of Pacific studies, Vikings of the Sunrise marks an attempt by the great Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck) to convey to a general reader ‘the settlement of Polynesia by a stone-age people who deserve to rank among the world’s great navigators.’
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New book empowers visually impaired character and celebrates diversity
Lucky Me
Lawrence Schimel
Illustrated by Juan Camilo Mayorga
Publishing for World Sight Day and Blind Low Vision Week, Lucky Me tells the story of a boy who feels very lucky to have a brother like Mateo — who is visually impaired.
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