2021 Ockham NZ Book Awards (winners)
For more details about this year's awards, visit the NZ Book Awards website.
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: 1st
Kara 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 imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough - A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...Show more
Hiakai: Modern Maori Cuisine by Monique Fiso
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cooking
Monique Fiso is a modern-day food warrior, taking Māori cuisine to the world. After years overseas in Michelin-star restaurants, Monique returned to Aotearoa to begin Hiakai, an innovative pop-up venture that's now a revered, award-winning restaurant in Wellington. Monique has also gone on to feature on ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Specimen - Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
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