Fiction > Literary Prize Longlisters, Shortlisters and Winners > 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Longlist
Downfall - The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond
$45.00 NZD
Category: 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Longlist
1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who he thought was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed.Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, o ...Show more
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artist to be presented by New Zealand at the prestigious 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di V ...Show more
Nature Boy - The Photography of Olaf Petersen by Catherine Hammond (Editor); Shaun Higgins (Editor); Andrew Clifford (Contribution by); Sandra Coney (Contribution by); Sarah Hillary (Contribution by); Kirstie Ross (Contribution by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A gull chick running across Muriwai Beach. Cabbage trees at Lake Wainamu. Tyre tracks, tugs of war and tramping trips. Olaf Petersen produced an unrivalled photographic account of the people and natural world of Auckland's wild west coast. Nature Boy introduces readers to this remarkable photographer an ...Show more
Chevalier & Gawayn by Phillip Mann
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Once upon a time in the future, things are looking grim. Plague stalks the land, people live behind city walls, or underground, or huddle in remote hamlets. No more animals, no more birdlife, no more freedom... never has the divide between rich and poor been so evident, never has the Earth been so despo ...Show more
Empire City - Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand by John E Martin
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pākehā se ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. As Hana and her tea ...Show more
A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand history through a new lens - 100 objects offer 100 entry points into the powerful, captivating stories of our shared past. Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and c ...Show more
Robin White: Something Is Happening Here by Sarah Farrar; Nina Tonga; Jill Trevelyan
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Robin White: Something is happening here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White's art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific, and Aotearoa New Zealand and celebrates her status as ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures by Robert Vennell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of Aotearoa, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees. Secrets of the Sea is a fascinating introduction to New Zealand's fish and shellfish, weaving together history, biology and culture to reveal how these unique and intriguing creatures ha ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more