New Zealand Book Awards
Previous and current New Zealand Book Awards finalists.
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Greta & Valdin / Rebecca K Reilly.
"Greta & Valdin", by Rebecca K Reilly - Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. 2022 Finalist Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction
"Tumble', by Joanna Preston -
This remarkable second collection by award-winning poet Joanna Preston charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her bold and original voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. 2022 Finalist Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
"The sea walks into a wall", by Anne Kennedy -
From rainy Ihumatao to London's Kew Gardens, in the face of seas and streams, ducks and dogs, black drops and bureaucracies, humans bumble through. Without distractions you'd rush through your life like chi through an empty room. You bump into a baby and that takes up eighteen years. Love fills the room like a maze. Intelligent, playful, witty and innovative, these poems bite where it hurts. 2022 Finalist Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
"Rangikura", by Tayi Tibble -
These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day. They ask us to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. They are both nostalgic for, and exhausted by, the pursuit of an endless summer. 2022 Finalist Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
"Voices from the New Zealand wars = he reo nō ngā pakanga o Aotearoa"
by Vincent O'Malley This book takes us to the heart of the wars that ravaged New Zealand between 1845 and 1872.- with a series of first-hand accounts from Māori and Pākehā who either fought in or witnessed the events. 2022 Finalist General Non-Fiction
"The alarmist : fifty years measuring climate change", by Dave Lowe -
An exhilarating autobiography of a pioneering Kiwi scientist who has dedicated his life to sounding the alarm on climate change . In the early 1970s, Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand's North Island. On a shoestring salary he measured carbon in the atmosphere, collecting vital data towards what became one of the most important discoveries in modern science. 2022 Finalist General Non-Fiction
"From the centre : a writer's life", by Patricia Grace -
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grandparents and parents and takes us through her childhood, her education, marriage and up to the present day in this touching and self-deprecating story of her life, 2022 Finalist General Non-Fiction Award
"The architect and the artists : Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble : the collaborative projects 1965-1979"
by Bridget Hackshaw - A beautiful book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 14 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. 2022 Finalist Bookksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for llustrated Non Fiction
"Shifting grounds : deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland", by Lucy Mackintosh -
Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over hundreds of years in places across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, forming potent sites of national significance. This ... book unearths these histories in three iconic landscapes. 2022 Finalist Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
"Nuku : stories of 100 indigenous women", text by and photography by Qiane Matata-Sipu ;
additional editing by Taylor Jo Aumua, Mairātea Mohi and Samantha Worthington - The power of storytelling is evident in our earliest pūrākau. Stories can change the world. It is how our tūpuna passed on their knowledge, the blueprint for living well, for generations. Through telling their stories, the women in this book seek to influence the world around them. 2022 Finalist Bookseller Aotearoa New Zealand Award For Illustrated Non-Fiction
"Dressed : fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910" by Claire Regnault -
The museums of Aotearoa New Zealand hold a glorious treasure trove of clothing worn by women from 1840 to the early 1900s. From ball gowns and riding habits to tea gowns and dresses worn for presentations to the Queen,, these gowns help tell the story of the lives of early businesswomen, society women and civic figures, 2022 Finalist Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award For llustrated Non-Ficition
"Kurangaituku", by Whiti Hereaka -
This is a story of love - but is this love something that creates or destroys? Kurangaituku is a contemporary retelling of the story of Hatupatu from the perspective of the traditional 'monster'- bird-woman Kurangaituku. 2022 Finalist Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction
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