New Zealand Post Book Award

Other Names: New Zealand Post Book Awards Shortlist
74 Works 6,714 Books 326 Reviews ½ 3.8
Before 2010 this was known as the Montana NZ Book Awards and before that the New Zealand Book Award. 
Information on the award can be found here Now called Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Stages:
All, Shortlist (37), No Stage (37)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2014 (15), 2013 (9), 2012 (15), 2011 (18), , 2010 (17)

Shortlist 37

WorkCategoryYear
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne KennedyFiction2014
The Bright Side of my Condition by Charlotte RandallFiction2014
Max Gate by Damien WilkinsFiction2014
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David GrantGeneral Non-fiction2014
A History of Silence by Lloyd JonesGeneral Non-fiction2014
Promoting prosperity : the art of early New Zealand advertising by Peter AlsopIllustrated Non-fiction2014
New Zealand and the First World War : 1914-1919 by Damien FentonIllustrated Non-fiction2014
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn HughesPoetry2014
Heartland by Michele LeggottPoetry2014
The Trouble With Fire by Fiona KidmanFiction2012
The Broken Book by Fiona FarrellGeneral Non-Fiction2012
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter GrahamGeneral Non-Fiction2012
BLIGH: William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne SalmondGeneral Non-Fiction2012
The hungry heart : journeys with William Colenso by Peter WellsGeneral Non-Fiction2012
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy by Gregory O'BrienIllustrated Non-Fiction2012
Thicket by Anna JacksonPoetry2012
The Night Book by Charlotte GrimshawFiction2011
Their Faces Were Shining by Tim WilsonFiction2011
99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry by Paula GreenGeneral Non-Fiction2011
No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson by Paul MillarGeneral Non-Fiction2011
Mune : an autobiography by Ian MuneGeneral Non-Fiction2011
The Tasman by Neville PeatGeneral Non-Fiction2011
Pounamu : the jade of New Zealand by Russell J. BeckIllustrated Non-Fiction2011
Brian Brake : lens on the world by Brian BrakeIllustrated Non-Fiction2011
The dress circle : New Zealand fashion design since 1940 by Douglas Lloyd JenkinsIllustrated Non-Fiction2011
Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton by Jane UssherIllustrated Non-Fiction2011
Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English by Albert WendtPoetry2011
Limestone by Fiona FarrellFiction2010
Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and Its Allies 1939-45 by Gerald HensleyGeneral Non-Fiction2010
The Invention of New Zealand: The Construction of National Identity in Art by Francis PoundGeneral Non-Fiction2010
Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne SalmondGeneral Non-Fiction2010
Marti Friedlander by Leonard BellIllustrated Non-Fiction2010
Māori architecture : from fale to wharenui and beyond by Deidre BrownIllustrated Non-Fiction2010
Art at Te Papa by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.Illustrated Non-Fiction2010
MRKUSICH: Abstraction in New Zealand by Alan WrightIllustrated Non-Fiction2010
The Lustre Jug by Bernadette HallPoetry2010
The tram conductor's blue cap by Michael HarlowPoetry2010

No Stage 37

WorkCategoryYear
Peter McLeavey: the Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer by Jill TrevelyanBook of the Year and General Non-Fiction2014
The Luminaries by Eleanor CattonFiction and People's Choice2014
Tough by Amy HeadFirst Book of Fiction2014
Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died by Rebecca MacfieFirst Book of Non-Fiction2014
Molesworth: Stories from New Zealand's Largest High-Country Station by Harry BroadNielsen Booksellers' Choice2014
Us, Then by Vincent O'SullivanPoetry2014
The Big Music [selected papers] by Kirsty GunnBook of the Year & Fiction2013
I Got His Blood on Me by Lawrence PatchettFirst Book of Fiction2013
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand's Legendary Bird by Quinn BerentsonFirst Book of Non-Fiction2013
Graft by Helen HeathFirst Book of Poetry2013
Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World by Steve BrauniasGeneral Non-Fiction2013
Ngā Waituhi o Rēhua by Katerina Te Heikoko MatairaMaori Language Award2013
Shelter from the Storm: the Story of New Zealand's Backcountry Huts by Shaun BarnettNielsen Booksellers' Choice2013
Patched: the History of Gangs in New Zealand by Jarrod GilbertPeople's Choice2013
The Darling North by Anne KennedyPoetry2013
Briefcase by John AdamsBest First Book of Poetry2012
New Zealand's Native Trees: A Comprehensive Illustrated Encyclopedia by John DawsonBook of the Year & Illustrated Non-Fiction2012
Rangatira by Paula MorrisFiction2012
Wulf by Hamish ClaytonFirst Book of Fiction2012
New Zealand by Design: a History of New Zealand Product Design by Michael SmytheFirst Book of Non-Fiction2012
Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator by Joan DruettGeneral Non-Fiction2012
From Under The Overcoat by Sue OrrPeople’s Choice2012
Shift by Rhian GallagherPoetry2012
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 by Chris BourkeBook of the Year, People's Choice & General Non-Fiction2011
The Hut Builder by Laurence FearnleyFiction2011
Everything We Hoped For by Pip AdamFirst Book of Fiction2011
Whaikōrero: the World of Māori Oratory by Poia RewiFirst Book of Non-Fiction2011
Dear Sweet Harry by Lynn JennerFirst Book of Poetry2011
The Passing World, the Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian SkinnerIllustrated Non-Fiction2011
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate CampPoetry2011
Encircled lands : Te Urewera, 1820-1921 by Judith BinneyBook of the Year & General Non-Fiction2010
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison WongFiction2010
Relief by Anna TaylorFirst Book of Fiction2010
Trust: a True Story of Women and Gangs by Pip DesmondFirst Book of Non-Fiction2010
Fast Talking PI by Selina Tusitala MarshFirst Book of Poetry2010
Go Fish: Recipes and Stories from the New Zealand Coast by Al BrownPeople's Choice & Illustrated Non-Fiction2010
Just This by Brian TurnerPoetry2010

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