The longlists for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced.
We are delighted to share At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley has been nominated in the fiction category while The Mermaid Chronicles: A Midlife Mer-moir by Megan Dunn and Unreel: A Life in Review by Diana Wichtel have been longlisted for the General Non-Fiction award.
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders. The shortlist of 16 books will be announced on March 5. For more information, see the New Zealand Book Awards Trust website.
At The Grand Glacier Hotel Laurence Fearnley
From award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley comes an intriguing story about recovery, reflection and reconnecting with ourselves and others.
The Mermaid Chronicles Megan Dunn
The true tale of how one woman’s lifelong obsession became a midlife mermaid odyssey, from the irrepressibly witty author of Tinderbox and Things I Learned at Art School.