VOLUME OCKHAMETER 2019 Survey

1.THE ACORNOMETER. Select your favourite finalist for the ACORN FOUNDATION FICTION PRIZE:

All This By Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan (Victoria University Press)

The Cage by Lloyd Jones (Penguin Random House)

This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman (Vintage/Penguin Random House)

The New Ships by Kate Duignan (Victoria University Press)

2.Select your favourite finalist for the MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY:

The Facts by Therese Lloyd (Victoria University Press)

There's No Place Like the Internet in the Springtime by Erik Kennedy (Victoria University Press)

Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath (Victoria University Press)

Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble (Victoria University Press)

3.Select your favourite finalist for the ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD:

Fight for the Forests: The pivotal campaigns that saved New Zealand's native forests by Paul Bensemann (Potton & Burton)

Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor edited by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Massey University Press)

Tatau: A history of Samoan tattooing by Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot (Te Papa Press)

Birdstories: A history of the birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman (Potton & Burton)

4.Select your favourite finalist for the ROYAL SOCIETY TE APĀRANGI AWARD FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION:

We Can Make a Life: A memoir of family, earthquakes and courage by Chessie Henry (Victoria University Press)

With Them Through Hell: New Zealand medical services in the First World War by Anna Rogers (Massey University Press)

Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee (Victoria University Press)

Hudson & Halls: The food of love by Joanne Drayton (Otago University Press)

To go in the draw for a Winners Prize Pack enter your contact details below.
The Winners Prize Pack, courtesy of our excellent New Zealand publishers, will include one copy of each category winner in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019.

Conditions of entry:
1. One entry per person
2. Prize will be sent only to a NZ address.
3. Entries close Friday 10th May at 5pm.

Watch out for the Ockhameter & Acornometer results in the VOLUME NEWSLETTER in the weekend prior to the real Ockham announcements!

(The winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced in Auckland on May 14th. Tickets for this event are available here.)

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