Seven books from AUP have been longlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for 2025.

What better way to kick off 2026 than with seven AUP titles making the longlist for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Congratulations to all those involved with these pukapuka and the other nominees!

The following books from AUP have been longlisted:

General Non-Fiction Award

Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist, by Mark Forman

BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

He Puāwai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers, by Philip Garnock-Jones

Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834–1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War, by Derek Leask

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

If We Knew How to We Would, by Emma Barnes

Clay Eaters, by Gregory Kan

No Good, by Sophie Waardenberg

Terrier, Worrier, by Anna Jackson