2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Long Lists for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction and Poetry

"Unforgettable and amusing memoirs, novels that move and unnerve, illustrated books that powerfully illuminate the past and present, and sizzling, considered poetry collections are among the 43 books longlisted from 175 entries." -- New Zealand Book Awards Trust

Updated February 4, 2025
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Kōtui New Plymouth Libraries
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Bad Archive
Ebook
Bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory. In this deftly woven work Flora Feltham explores the corners where her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother' s house, a marriage counsellor' s office, the tip and New World. She takes us...
Ash
Wallace, Louise.
Ebook
Thea lives under a mountain - one that' s ready to blow.A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping - just - with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss' s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved...
Pretty ugly
Gunn, Kirsty
The Mires
Makereti, Tina.
Paper Book
A literary page turner that explores the intertwined lives of three neighboring families in a small coastal New Zealand town--a blend of Little Fires Everywhere and The Island of Missing Trees, combining domestic drama, suspense, indigenous folklore, and the threat of extremism on ordinary lives....
The Royal Free
Shuker, Carl.
Paper Book
An exuberant dark comedy about dying young, parenting through grief, and the full-on hilarity of copyediting a medical journal while the city around you burns James Ballard is a recently widowed father to a baby daughter. And he is a copy editor tasked with saving the Royal...
Slim volume
Brown, James
Ebook
A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world. James Brown' s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives - before arriving in a...
The girls in the red house are singing
Slaughter, Tracey

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