Win every book shortlisted for the Ockhams (16 total) @ Newsroom

To enter the draw, simply select which of the four books will win each category (as set out below), and compose a few words supporting your informed or wild guess, by emailing [email protected] with the subject line reading, in screaming caps, I WOULD QUITE LIKE TO WIN THE ANNUAL 2022 READINGROOM GREATEST BOOK PRIZE OF ALL TIMES by 6pm on Wednesday, May 11. In other words you have three days. Entries received after 6pm are ineligible.

16 books - four novels, four collections of poetry, four books of non-fiction and four books of illustrated non-fiction - compete for honours at the Ockham New Zealand book awards. All 16 books are up for grabs in a fantastic giveaway offer available exclusively to good old ReadingRoom.

BOOKSELLERS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION

• Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh (Bridget Williams Books)
• The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble by Bridget Hackshaw (Massey University Press)
• Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910 by Claire Regnault (Te Papa Press)
• NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women by Qiane Matata-Sipu (QIANE+co)

JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION

• Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers)
• Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• Entanglement by Bryan Walpert (Mākaro Press)
• A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster (Text Publishing)

GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD

• The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw (Vintage, Penguin Random House)
• Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O’Malley (Bridget Williams Books)
• From the Centre: A Writer’s Life by Patricia Grace (Penguin, Penguin Random House)
• The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe (Te Herenga Waka University Press)

MARY AND PETER BIGGSY AWARD FOR POETRY

• Rangikura by Tayi Tibble (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press)
• Sleeping with Stones by Serie Barford (Anahera Press)
• Tumble by Joanna Preston (Otago University Press)