Explore the finalists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in these four digital samplers, with extracts from all sixteen shortlisted books.

Over the next month we’re releasing a new digital sampler every week, each dedicated to a different awards genre: Poetry, Illustrated Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, and Fiction.

You can view read-only versions at Issuu, the New Zealand Book Awards Trust website, or click on the covers below to download samplers and read at your leisure. Then seek out the complete books in bookshops and libraries countrywide.

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand……………………………………..Jann Medlicott Acorn
Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction…………………………………………..Prize for Fiction