Portfolio: Award-winning books

Over the years, many of the books we have produced have won literary, design and specialist awards. We take pride in producing, and being associated with, the best.

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Blindsight by Maurice Gee

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry and Fiction, Readers' Choice, Montana Book Awards 2006.

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Tu by Patricia Grace

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction and winner of the Fiction category, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005
Nielsen Bookdata NZ Booksellers' Choice Award 2005

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Grace is Gone by Kelly Ana Morey

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, 2005

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Ghost Dance by Douglas Wright

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Award for Non-fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005
E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non Fiction
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The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Readers' Choice Award, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004
Platinum bestseller in New Zealand (100,000+ sales)

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Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimaera

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Shortlisted for Best Book in the South Pacific & South East Region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2004.
Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005

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The Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Runner-up in the Fiction category, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004
Runner-up in the SE Asia and South Pacific Region, Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Awards

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Bloom by Kelly Ana Morey

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards The New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004

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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Montana Medal for Non-Fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004

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Knocked for Six by Alison Robertson

Publisher Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Awards Winner of the Esther Glen Award 2002 (for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children)

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The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Tasmania Pacific Region Fiction Prize 2003 (Australia's richest literary prize);
Deutz Medal for Fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2001

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Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Winner of the Montana Medal for Non-fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2001
Readers' Choice Award; 1st equal in History & Biography categories, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2001

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The Life-Size Guide to Native Trees by Andrew Crowe

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Winner of the Elsie Locke Award in the LIANZA and Best Use of Illustrations in the GP Print Book Design Awards in 1998.

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Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera

Publisher Penguin Books
Awards Montana Book Award for Fiction 1995

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The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera

Publisher Penguin
Awards Winner of the Wattie Book of the Year, 1986
Runner-up for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 1987

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Landfall Series

Publisher Otago University Press
Awards Landfall 1999: winner of the Best Review Page, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1999.

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