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Judith Binney Wins 2010 New Zealand Post Book of the Year

Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Christopher Finlayson tonight honoured historian Judith Binney with the country’s highest literary accolade, the New Zealand Post Book of the Year, for her work Encircled Lands, a book about Tūhoe’s quest for self-government of their lands, granted to them in law more than a century ago.

Interview with Geoff Walker, out-going director of publishing at Penguin Group (NZ).

The publishing world has changed dramatically over the past quarter of a century, with Penguin not escaping contemporary plagiarism controversies and facing the challenges of the digital age and e-books.

Geoff Walker discusses his 25 years in publishing and provides a few tips for aspiring authors.

The Book Council and Penguin New Zealand present The Story-teller. Join us and celebrate the release of the first major new biography of Katherine Mansfield for more than 25 years, with author Kathleen Jones. In this book we get a vivid picture of Mansfield. The story extends further still, beyond Mansfield’s death, shedding fascinating new light on the way husband, John Murry controversially manipulated the publication of some unpublished work. This event will be chaired by Elizabeth Alley.

Penguin Group (NZ) are delighted to advise that As the Earth Turns Silver, by Alison Wong has been shortlisted for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards in Australia.

Wong is in very good company with J.M. Coetzee, Deborah Forster, Alan Gould, Eva Hornung, David Malouf and Alex Miller the other fiction award shortlisted authors.

Radio NZ - National (National New Zealand)
Checkpoint - 22/06/2010 - 06:48 PM
Eru Rerekura

Deidre Brown's book on Maori architecture has been named as a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

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ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION FINALIST

Congratulations to Peter Temple who was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award for 2010. Announced at an award dinner in Sydney on 22 June 2010, Peter Temple was presented this year's prize of $42,000 for his novel Truth.

Temple's winning novel is the much anticipated sequel to The Broken Shore and comprehends murder, corruption, family, friends, honour, honesty, deceit, love, betrayal - and truth. A stunning story about contemporary Australian life, Truth is written with great moral sophistication.

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION FINALIST

Māori Architecture: From fale to wharenui and beyond
Deidre Brown
Raupo, Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 9780143011125
RRP $70.00

Māori Architecture charts, for the first time, the genesis and form of indigenous buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores the vast array of Māori-designed structures and spaces – how they evolved over time, and how they tell the story of an ever-changing people. The book looks at facets of early Polynesian settlement through to contemporary architecture.

GENERAL NON-FICTION FINALIST

Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939-1945
Gerald Hensley
Viking, Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 9780670074044
RRP $65.00