Over the past year, our reviewers hav
e covered many of the New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists on our blog. We have since recieved reviews for all but a very few of the finalists. Check them out below:
Poetry finalists
A Man Runs into a Woman, by Sarah Jane Barnett – reviewed by Melanie Wittwer
Snow White’s Coffin, by Kate Camp – reviewed by Sarah Jane Barnett
The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013, by Ian Wedde – reviewed by Melanie Wittwer
Fiction finalists
The Big Music, by Kirsty Gunn – reviewed by Christopher Howe
The Intentions Book, by Gigi Fenster – reviewed by Renee Boyer-Willisson
In the Absence of Heroes, by Anthony McCarten – reviewed by Tiffany Matsis
The Forrests, by Emily Perkins – reviewed by Gillian Torckler
Illustrated Non-fiction finalists
His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell, by David Craig & Gregory O’Brien – reviewed by Chris Frayling
Pat Hanly, by Gil Hanly & Gregory O’Brien – reviewed by Sarah Jane Barnett
Selling the Dream: The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism – reviewed by Aaron Blaker
Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush, by Chris Maclean – reviewed by Cath Cowley
General Non-fiction finalists
Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World, by Steve Braunias – reviewed by Chris Frayling
The Search for Anne Perry, by Joanne Drayton – reviewed by Marion Dreadon
Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand, by Jarrod Gilbert – reviewed by Feby Idriani
Best First Books
Graft, by Helen Heath – reviewed by Hera Lindsay
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