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African Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Ndima Ndima
by Tsitsi Mapepa

An 'utterly original' debut novel set in post-Independence Zimbabwe

Anne KennedyNovember 15, 2023

Anthology Fiction Literary Fiction Māori Pasifika Short Stories

The Penguin NZ Anthology: 50 stories for 50 years in Aotearoa

A ' long, loud song for a strong and evolving tradition' of story-writing.

Sally BlundellNovember 1, 2023

Asian Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Backwaters
by Emma Ling Sidnam

A debut novel that's a 'story of becoming' and of exploring the unknowable past.

Melanie KwangOctober 11, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories

Signs of Life
by Amy Head

A story collection set in an unsettled Christchurch

Elizabeth EngledowSeptember 6, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Māori Novel

The Bone Tree
by Airana Ngarewa

'Big things happen' in a dark debut novel set in Taranaki.

Kelly Ana MoreyAugust 18, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

The Waters
by Carl Nixon

A novel-in-stories interrogates generational trauma in a Canterbury family.

Rebecca HillAugust 4, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel Speculative Fiction

Audition
by Pip Adam

An ingenious exploration of constraints – and Space.

Angelique KasmaraJuly 12, 2023

Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer

The horror: a shocking story of witch trials in seventeenth-century East Anglia.

Sue ReidyJune 22, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Novel

Pet
by Catherine Chidgey

An unsettling, expert psychodrama in 'the intense hothouse' of a convent school.

Sue ReidyJune 9, 2023

Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

The Deck
by Fiona Farrell

A New Zealand Decameron for the Covid era.

Sue ReidyApril 19, 2023

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