2025 NZ Book Awards Shortlist
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See the shortlisted books that we have in our collection. |
Fiction |
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At the Grand Glacier Hotelby Laurence Fearnley |
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Deliriousby Damien Wilkins |
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Pretty Uglyby Kirsty Gunn |
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The Miresby Tina Makereti |
Poetry |
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Hopurangi - Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramatakaby Robert Sullivan |
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In the Half Light of a Dying Dayby C.K. Stead |
Illustrated Non-fiction |
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Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernistby Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson |
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Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographerby Athol McCredie |
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Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papaby Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice |
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Artby Deidre Brown , Ngarino Ellis and onathan Mane-Wheoki |
General Non-fiction |
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Hine Toa: A Story of Braveryby Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku |
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The Chthonic Cycleby Una Cruickshank |
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The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisationby Richard Shaw |