We publish well-researched, independent nonfiction that informs public debate, challenges official narratives, and fills gaps left by mainstream media coverage.
Our mission is simple
To publish important books, without fear or favour, including work that questions dominant narratives and can withstand close scrutiny.
Centrist Publishing is the book publishing arm of Centrist.nz, an independent platform focused on context, accountability, and public interest journalism.
Our latest title
JACINDA The Untold Stories
By David Cohen with Rebecca Keillor
This unauthorised biography has become one of New Zealand’s fastest-moving political books in years.
Written by journalists David Cohen with Rebecca Keillor, the book draws on more than 100 interviews to examine how Ardern’s leadership was constructed, sustained and defended through successive crises and how that political identity was marketed internationally.
Since its release, JACINDA, The Untold Stories has surged through bookstores nationwide and triggered multiple reprints. Auckland stores have reported repeated sell-outs, with some on their seventh reorder.
It has appeared in NielsenIQ’s New Zealand Non-fiction Top 10 since launch.
What people have said about, JACINDA The Untold Stories
“Anyone who is anyone is in there,”
Mike Hosking
Broadcaster
“Cohen… is more even-handed, and his is probably closest to the story about Ardern… Cohen’s book helps diagnose where it all went wrong,”
The New Zealand Listener
“This is a big book. It is not one note. It attempts to examine Jacinda and her legacy in a 360 way,”
Emile Donovan
RNZ
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