Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award shortlist announced

The shortlist for the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards Booksellers Choice Award has been announced.

The 16 books in the running for the award, which will be voted for by booksellers, are:

• A Better Place (Stephen Daisley, Text)
• At The Bach (Joy Cowley, Gecko Press)
• Birnam Wood (Eleanor Cotton, Te Herenga Waka Press)
• Bookshop Dogs (Ruth Shaw, A&U)
• Children of the Rush #2 (James Shaw)
• Dice (Clare Bayliss, A&U)
• Everything is Beautiful & Everything Hurts (Josie Shapiro, Penguin NZ)
• Flora: Celebrating our Botanical World (ed by Carlos Lehnebach et al, Te Papa Press)
• Fungi of Aotearoa (Liv Sisson, Penguin NZ)
• Our Land In Colour (Brendan Graham & Jock Phillips, Harper Collins NZ)
• Pet (Catherine Chidgey, Te Herenga Waka Press)
• Ringakōreko: Dazzlehands (Sacha Cotter & Josh Morgan, Huia Publishing)
• Tails of Tangleby Gardens 2 (Sue Heazlewood, Tangleby Gardens)
• The Girl From London (Olivia Spooner, Moa Press)
• The Observologist (Giselle Clarkson, Gecko Press)
• The Seasonwife (Saige England, David Bateman).

The Aotearoa Booksellers Choice award is among the awards to be presented at the 2024 Aotearoa Book Industry Awards, which will take place on 3 August.

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