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Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award

The award is an established acknowledgement of the books that booksellers throughout the country have most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting. It is unique in that it acknowledges the key role booksellers play in supporting New Zealand writing and publishing. Booksellers are asked to vote for the book they have most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting.

The award carries a prize of $NZ2500 for the winning author. All booksellers who vote will enter a prize draw for a subscription to a Nielsen BookData bibliographic service.

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Winner: The Road to Castle Hill. A High Country Love Story, Christine Fernyhough with Louise Callan, published by Random House NZ

Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high achieving children in low decile schools. In 2004 she was a recent widow when she spied an advertisement for the sale of the legendary Castle Hill Station, near Porters Heights in the Canterbury alps. A woman of energy and enterprise, she bought it and so began a new life learning to run a high country farm at some of the highest elevations in the South Island.

This joyful book tells of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of high country life. Christine has thrown herself into station life with gusto, learning to ride so she can join musters in the back country, feeding out to her stock during the disastrous snowstorm of 2006, training a sheep dog, buying stock with her manager at the sales and getting on famously with the colourful local characters who are her neighbours, and diversifying the station with a tourism enterprise - and proving that she is not a city slicker on a dalliance. Warm, humorous, this inspirational book tells the story of a woman bold enough to do what many urbanites dream of: embark on an entirely new life and through herself into a considerable challenge. Beautifully illustrated, The Road to Castle Hill is also a celebration of New Zealand high-country way of life.

Publisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House, 2007.

Finalists

A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal
Gregory O’Brien, published by Learning Media


Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning
Jennifer Hay, published by the Christchurch Art Gallery


Edwin and Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story

Laurence Fearnley, published by Penguin Books NZ


Mau Moko, The World of Maori Tattoo
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, published by Penguin Books NZ


New New Zealand Houses
Patrick Reynolds and John Walsh, published by Random House NZ


New Zealand’s Wilderness Heritage
Les Molloy and Craig Potton, published by Craig Potton Publishing


Ribbons of Grace
Maxine Alterio, published by Penguin Books NZ


Soundtrack: 118 Great New Zealand Albums

Grant Smithies, published by Craig Potton Publishing

2007

Winner: Tramping in New ZealandTramping in New Zealand; 40 of New Zealand's Best Trips, by Shaun Barnett, published by Craig Potton Publishing

Finalists
Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, Audrey Eagle, published by Te Papa Press
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones, published by Penguin Books NZ
Silk Riders, Gareth Morgan and Jo Morgan, published by Random House New Zealand Ltd

2006

Winner: He Will Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men , Celia Lashlie, published by HarperCollins New Zealand


The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman, published by Random House NZ Ltd
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, Linda Olsson, published by Penguin Books NZ
The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape, edited by James Brown, photographs by Craig Potton

2005

Winner: Tu, Patricia Grace

Finalists
At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins
Book Book, Fiona Farrell
Heart of Coal, Jenny Pattrick

2004

The Penguin History of New Zealand
Michael King

2003

The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera

2002

Curious questions
Max Cryer

2001

Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame
Michael King

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