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Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction
Dancing with the King: The
Rise and Fall of the King
Country, 1864-1885
Michael Belgrave
Published by Auckland University Press
A riveting account of a key period in New Zealand history, during which an extraordinary and colourful cast of characters, including Tāwhiao,
Rewi Maniapoto, Donald McLean and George Grey, negotiated the role of the Māori King and the British Queen. Michael Belgrave illustrates the evolving relationship between Māori and Pākehā, tribe and Crown, which continues to shape New Zealand into the new millennium.
Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir
Tom Scott
Published by Allen and Unwin
An hilarious, heart-breaking and heart-warming book in which Tom Scott recounts his life with blistering wit. We are introduced to the people,
places and events that have had an impact on his life, seen through a shrewd, acerbic and sometimes scathingly funny lens. Each chapter leaps about, but ultimately follows a logical progression as we come
to know how the man, the journalist, the cartoonist and the writer has been formed by his uniquely New Zealand background.
Judges: Ella Henry, Philip King and Toby Manhire
Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father
Diana Wichtel Published by Awa Press
Powerful, poignant, and not infrequently profound, Driving to Treblinka sets out in pursuit of the truth about the life and death of the author’s father. Diana Wichtel traces his story back to Poland, and
from the Jewish ghetto and
a miraculous escape from execution at the Nazi death camp in Treblinka to a new
life in Canada and another heart-wrenching separation from family. As uplifting as it is upsetting, Driving to Treblinka delivers an engrossing account of a life, and the indelible legacy of the Holocaust through the generations.
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds
Anne Salmond
Published by Auckland University Press
This is Anne Salmond’s most ambitious book to date. This is New Zealand, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide. Beginning with an examination of the early period of
encounters between Māori and European, 1769-1840, Salmond proceeds to investigate clashes and exchanges in key areas
of contemporary life— waterways, land, the sea and people—and points to new ways of understanding interactions between people and the natural world.
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