Friday, 18 July 2025

Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel

 The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award 
for Best Novel 

Return To Blood by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster)

The Hitchhiker by Gabriel Bergmoser (Harpercollins)

A Divine Fury by D V Bishop (Macmillan)

Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)

Woman, Missing by Sherryl Clark (HQ Fiction)

Hell’s Bells by Jill Johnson (Black & White)

The Mires by Tina Makereti (Ultimo Press)

A Fly Under the Radar by William Mccartney

Home Truths by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)

17 Years Later by J P Pomare (Hachette)

Okiwi Brown by Cristina Sanders (The Cuba Press)

A House Built on Sand by Tina Shaw (Text Publishing)

The Call by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)

Prey by Vanda Symon (Orenda Books)

The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth & Louise Ward (Penguin)

The finalists for Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Non-Fiction will be announced in mid-August, with the finalists celebrated and the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award winners announced as part of a special event in conjunction with WORD Christchurch and the Court Theatre on Thursday, 25 September.

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