The 2025 Ockhams Finalists

Explore the finalists for the 2025 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: Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry and Illustrated Non-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.

….Jann Medlicott Acorn…………………………………..……….. BookHub Award for
……..Prize for Fiction………………………………………………..Illustrated Non-Fiction

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…Mary and Peter Biggs……………………………………………….General Non-Fiction
….Award for Poetry……………………………………………………………Award

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