Long story short
Mar 08, 2020
3 minutes
by RUSSELL BAILLIE
The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist has many surprises, especially to the fans of Elizabeth Knox’s best-selling fantasy The Absolute Book and admirers of Vincent O’Malley’s landmark history The New Zealand Wars/Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. Neither work made the cut to the final four from the 10-title longlist in their respective categories in this year’s awards.
“Lots of people have favourites that didn’t make it on,” says Paula Morris of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust, the organisation behind what is the country’s biggest literary prize. “That’s the way
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