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An epic adventure-fantasy - ancient secrets and a treacherous journey in a vast wilderness.Winner of the Best First Book Award in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young AdultsThe judges said: 'Perfectly pitched for middle fiction readers. Making this story's light shine bright is te...

Winner JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards'Atmospheric and refined, compelling from start to finish. A tightly wound collection of short stories which explore the weird, the eerie and the mordantly funny, there’s a sense of quiet unease and slow-burning rage...

Winner; MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – HUBERT CHURCH PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021Ockham New Zealand Book AwardsKara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people's kids - her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and i...

Winner - MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – E H MCCORMICK PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards'In this compulsively readable first book, Madison Hamill observes her own difference with an outsider’s detached gaze, and the ordinary people around her with tender curiosity....

WINNER, Booklovers Award for Best Junior Fiction Book 2023to read an interview with www.nzbooklovers.co.nz about her win and the book."Keenan has pitched this book perfectly to the intended independent reader too - it's the right length, has the right vocabulary and features concepts and content tha...

Winner 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards; MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRYto visit the Ockhams Sampler; Extracts from the finalist books in the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awardsto visit the Ockham Book Awards 2023 ShortlistKhadro Mohamed expertly...

Ockham Book Award Winner 2024GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD In An Indigenous Ocean, Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa weaves together academic rigour, captivating stories and engaging prose to reframe our understanding of New Zealand’s colonial history in the South Pacific.This scholarly but highly accessibl...

Ockham Book Award Winner 2024JANN MEDLICOTT Acorn PRIZE FOR Fiction "A searing and urgent novel crackling with tension and intelligence, Lioness starts with a hiss and ends with a roar as protagonist Therese’s dawning awareness and growing rage reveals itself.At first glance this is a psychologica...

Winner, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, ABIA Awards, 2021Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two.Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her pr...