New Zealand Post Book Awards Winners 2010
Book of the Year & General Non-Fiction Winner
 Encircled
Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921
by Judith Binney.
Distinguished Historian Judith Binney studies one hundred years of the
Urewera region & its people Tuhoe.
Judge Paul Diamond: 'Encircled Lands is an exhaustive, comprehensive history of
Te Rohe Potae o Te Urewera, the only autonomous tribal district that was
recognised in law. Not only does it fulfill the author's hopes of revealing an
almost unknown history to a new audience, it also deftly illustrates why the
history of the Urewera and its people continues to resonate.' -
Booksellers.co.nz
'Judith Binney's magnificent history of the Tuhoe people sweeps away many
popular misconceptions.' -
Listener.
People's Choice Award & Illustrated Non-Fiction winner
 Go
Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast
by Al Brown.
Al Brown combines his two passions, fishing & cooking, in this popular book.
It includes over 100 fish and shellfish recipes.
Judge Neville Peat: 'Go Fish as a seafood recipe book with edge and attitude'.
'Colourful images pour from the pages and spicing up the illustrative side are
busy montages demonstrating how to prepare crayfish, crab and paua, and how to
fillet a flounder - no mean feat, any of this. The recipes themselves, easy to
follow, employ an engaging mix of type sizes and layout techniques. For a
cookbook, it's a remarkable page-turner.' -
Booksellers.co.nz.
'More than just a cook book, Go Fish is Al Brown's homage to fish.'
NZFishing.com.
Fiction Winner
 As
the Earth Turns Silver
by Alison Wong.
In New Zealand Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese.
Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children and find her place in the
world. In a climate of hostility towards the foreign newcomers, Katherine and
Yung embark on a poignant and far-reaching love affair. -
Booksellers.co.nz.
The judges said 'based on meticulous research, this novel opens new windows on
the development of our nation; it also opens our hearts to the anguish caused by
racism, ignorance, failures in family relationship and communication, and war.
The book is a delight to look at and hold, as well as deeply moving to read.' -
Booksellers.co.nz.
'Wong is the Patricia Grace of the Chinese New Zealand experience. The book is
tightly plotted, and Wong is adept at keeping readers in suspense and using
particularly enthralling language.' -
Beattie's Book Blog.
Poetry Winner
 Just
This
by Brian Turner.
'Just This dares to ask the profoundest questions about place and human
existence, how we live now and how we hand the world on. It is dangerous poetry
because it addresses ethics but at the same time it is leavened with a sweet and
sly self-awareness as it searches for "something you can have faith in, swear
by". The journey from the first poem to the last is a revelation,' says Judge
Elizabeth Smither. -
Booksellers.co.nz.
'Brian Turner's ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the
heart of his rich and compelling new collection of poems.' -
NZ Post Book Awards.
Best First Book Winners
Winner of the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry:
 Fast
Talking PI by Selina Tusitala Marsh is a collection of poems. Marsh was the
first person of Pacific descent to graduate with a PhD in English at the
University of Auckland. She was also active in establishing the Pasifika Poetry
Web. This book comes with a CD featuring Marsh performing her poetry. Her poems
refer to her life, her family, community, ancestry, and history.
Winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction:
Relief
by Anna Taylor is a collection of short stories where family life is a prominent
feature.
'Anna Taylor in these stories has the command of technique to make the most of
interesting story material, most of it to do with family relationships, from the
ordinary to the extreme.' -
Otago Daily Times.
Winner of the NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction:
Trust:
A True Story of Women & Gangs by Pip Desmond tells the remarkable story of
her time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative for gang women in
Wellington.
'As a unique insight into New Zealand's social history and a way to understand
women and gangs, it is without peer.' -
Booksellers.co.nz..
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