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| Wanaka cookbook makes the final cut in prestigious international awards
Random House’s magnificent Wanaka: Earth to Heaven at Whare Kea cookbook, published in September 2011, has made the final cut in the internationally prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, vying with 11 others for the hotly contested ‘Best Cookbook of the Year’ category... more |
| Christmas has come early for Kiwi Anthony McCarten
Random Anthony McCarten, the internationally successful novelist, playwright and director/writer who's London-based these days is getting his gifts early this year. Ian Fitzgibbon’s film adaptation of McCarten's acclaimed novel, Death of a Superhero, has won... more |
| A strong showing by Random House NZ at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Random House is thrilled to be able to announce that five of its books have won awards in the New Zealand division of the strongly contested Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. And the winners are.... more |
| The Moon and Farmer McPhee named an IBBY Honour Book
Congratulations to Margaret Mahy and David Elliott, whose The Moon & Farmer McPhee has been selected as the New Zealand 2012 IBBY Honour Book for Illustration. An international award for children’s books... more |
| Congratulations to Emma Neale and James Norcliffe
The University of Otago has announced its 2012 Arts Fellowships, and among them is Dunedin poet and novelist Emma Neale, author of Fosterling; and novelist James Norcliffe, author of The Loblolly Boy and the Sorceror... more |
| Random House author, Julian Barnes makes 2011 Man Booker shortlist!
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 6th September and we're pleased to annouce that Random House author Julian Barnes has made it on the list with his amazing novel The Sense of an Ending!... more |
| Kate De Goldi wins the The Corine International Book Prize
It has just been announced that Kate De Goldi has won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award for The 10pm Question. The Corine – International Book Prize is a German literature prize created by the Bavarian Landesverband of the... more |
| Random House wins at the PANZ Book Design Awards
The Great Wrong War published by Random House took out the Hachette New Zealand Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book last night at the PANZ Book Design Awards ceremony held at the National Library of New Zealand in Auckland... more
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| Dame Fiona Kidman Wins the 2011 Prime Minister’s Award
Dame Fiona Kidman was presented with the Prime Minister’s Award for her significant contribution to New Zealand literature, at Premier House in Wellington last night. Kidman has played an active part in teaching, mentoring and promoting writing causes in New Zealand. She began her career as a journalist... more
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| Random House author Paul Cleave wins 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award
Random House is proud to announce that Christchurch writer Paul Cleave has won the Ngaio Marsh award for his book Blood Men. Announced at the country’s biggest crime writing event yesterday (Sunday 21 August), the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel... more |
| Random House Celebrates Two Wins at the 2011 LIANZA Children's Book Awards
This year three Random House authors took away prizes at the LIANZA Awards; Fleur Beale won the LIANZA Young Adult Medal for her book Fierce September, and James Crampton and Marianna Terezow took out the Elsie Locke Award for Best Non-fiction for The Kiwi Fossil Hunter’s Handbook... more |
| Random House authors longlisted for Man Booker Prize 2011
The Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist displays the writing prowess of the Commonwealth's best writers. Congratulations and good luck to the two Random House authors who made the prestigious list; Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending, and D.J. Taylor for Derby Day.... more
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| Lee Child scoops hotly-contested British crime award
The tens of thousands of Jack Reacher fans downunder are in no doubt that Lee Child can write a good thriller. In fact, fans worldwide need no convincing. To date, 50 million Reacher books have sold around the world and one sells somewhere every few seconds... more
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| Random House Celebrated as New Zealand’s Top Publisher
Random House New Zealand took away two of the coveted Thorpe-Bowker awards at an industry cocktail function held at Te Papa, on Sunday 17 July. The company won both the ‘Publisher of the Year’ and ‘New Zealand Publishing’ awards... more
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| PANZ Book Design Awards 2011 shortlist announced
We are proud and delighted to have four titles shortlisted for The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards 2011. We are also thrilled that our former colleague Pieta Brenton is shortlisted for the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award; well done Pieta!... more
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| Keith Stewart short listed for International Wine Book of the Year!
Random House is thrilled to announce that Chancers and Visionaries by Keith Stewart has been short listed for the International Wine Book of the Year in the very prestigious 2011 Louis Roederer Wine Writers Awards (LRIWWA).The judging panel was highly impressed by Keith’s entry... more
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| Random House’s Sir Ray Avery is New Zealand’s most trusted
There’s a new leader in the annual Reader’s Digest Most Trusted list – and a trifecta for scientists in the top three – released in the July issue of Reader’s Digest New Zealand. The seventh annual Reader’s Digest Trust Survey reveals the findings from a national poll conducted by a leading independent research... more |
| Courageous mother shares her family’s heart-break to help families
If there’s a glimmer of hope to come out of the monstrous murder of Sophie Elliott, it’s the Foundation which has been set up in the memory of Lesley and Gil Elliott’s treasured only daughter to help ensure other families never have to go through what they did.... more |
| Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers Choice Award 2011 shortlist announced
Classic: The Revival of Classic Boating in New Zealand by Ivor Wilkins and Rebel with a Cause by Ray Avery with Paul Little, both published by Random House New Zealand Ltd, are two of the books shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers Choice Award 2011... more |
| LIANZA 2011 Children’s Book Awards nominations
Random House New Zealand warmly congratulates the finalists in this year’s LIANZA 2011 Children’s Book Awards nominations. We are pleased to have four books amongst the selection: The Moon & Farmer McPhee, The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook, Ebony Hill and Fierce September... more |
| 2011 NZ Post Book Awards finalists announced
99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry, edited by Paula Green and Harry Ricketts, is a finalist in the general non-fiction category. The Night Book by Charlotte Grimshaw is a finalist in the fiction category. And The Dress Circle: A History of New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940... more |
| Paul Henry: What Was I Thinking
Paul Henry is arguably one of New Zealands most controversial media personalities. His face graces magazine covers, the pages of newspapers and of course TV screens and the country hangs on his every word.“I never imagined I would ever have the time, energy, patience or inclination to write a book... more |
| Craig Cliff wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011 Best First Book for A Man Melting
Random House warmly congratulates New Zealand author Craig Cliff on winning the Best First Book at the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his book A Man Melting. Announced in Sydney on 21st May as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the judges chose this highly entertaining.... more
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| Random House Wins Big at New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards
Literary legend Margaret Mahy and internationally recognised illustrator from Dunedin, David Elliot, have won the country’s most prestigious gong for children’s literature, The New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award for their picture book, The Moon & Farmer McPhee... more |
| Kate McCann speaks out in this new book, Madeleine
Kate McCann's book Madeleine is a personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for her daughter Madeleine McCann who was abducted from Praia da Luz, Portugal on Thursday, 3 May 2007. Kate and Gerry McCann established Madeleine's Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned in 2007... more |
| Entries for the 2012 Gavin Bishop Award are now open!
The biennial Storylines Gavin Bishop Award was established in 2009, and aims to encourage the publication of exciting, high quality picture books from New Zealand illustrators. It also recognises the contribution that Gavin Bishop has made to the writing and illustrating of children’s picture books, and gives an emerging talent... more |
| Random House announces final book in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle
It is with great excitement that Random House NZ announces that the fourth and final book in Christopher Paolini’s global bestseller Inheritance Cycle will be published late this year. Following the number one bestselling novels Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, the book will be called INHERITANCE. 'The burning questions asked by fans around... more |
| Me'a Kai wins Best NZ Cookbook in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010
Me'a Kai: The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific by Robert Oliver with Tracy Berno and Shiri Ram has won the overall prize for Cookbook of the Year in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2010. In December, Me'a Kai won the New Zealand Best Book of the Year in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, thus gaining... more |
| A Man Melting wins Best First Book award in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
A Man Melting, by Craig Cliff, has won the Best First Book award for the South East Asia and Pacific region in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Dr. Paul Sharrad, South East Asia and Pacific Regional Chair, said the following: 'A Man Melting marks the appearance of a lively new voice in New Zealand writing, wry, punchy... more |
| Random House well represented amongst NZ Post Children's Book Awards finalists
Random House New Zealand warmly congratulates the finalists in this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and is delighted to have four books amongst the selection: The Moon & Farmer McPhee by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by David Elliot (Picture Book category) The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook... more |
| Random House authors recognised in New Year's Honours List
Random House warmly congratulates Sir Ray Avery, Sir Michael Hill, Sir James McNeish and Christine Fernyhough on their appointments in the New Year’s Honours list.For his philanthropic services, Sir Ray Avery (Rebel With a Cause, 2010) has been made a Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order... more |
| Two Random House novels shortlisted for South Bank Sky Arts Award
Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal and What to Look For In Winter by Candia McWilliam have both been shortlisted for the fifiteenth annual South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature.The awards are one of the world's most coveted arts awards, celebrating British artistic achievement across... more |
| Random House is well represented in the NZ Listener's Best Books of 2010 lists
Random House is very proud to have a large number of books on both the '50 Best Children's Books of 2010' and the '100 Best Books of 2010'. Listed below are the NZ Listener's final top choices, categories include everything from fiction, poetry to lifestyle and science... more |
| Random House well represented in the Costa Book Awards 2010
Seven Random House titles were shortlisted for the five categories of this year's Costa Book Awards. This award is one of the most presitigious literary prizes in the UK and honours the best books by writers from the UK and Ireland. The winners of each category will be drawn on 5th January and... more |
| Two New Zealand Authors make longlist for significant international literary award
Random House is very proud to announce that two of New Zealand’s very own authors have been longlisted for the significant literary prize of the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Congratulations to Fiona Farrell for Limestone and Rachael King for Magpie Hall for making it to the longlist of 162... more |
| Two Random House titles shortlisted in The Saltire Society Awards.
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner and The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue Peebles have both been shortlisted for The Saltire Society Awards. The Stars in the Bright Sky has made the shortlist of nine books to be in the running for... more
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| Random House winners in the Galaxy National Book Awards 2010
Random House are proud to congratulate the four authors that have won in several categories of the prominent industry awards – the Galaxy National Book Awards. The Awards showcase and recognise the top books and writers over a range of categories... more |
| Trautmann’s Journey makes William Hill shortlist
The book tells the astounding story of Bert Trautmann, a former Hitler Youth member who became goalkeeper for Manchester City and played in an FA Cup Final - with a broken neck. The William Hill Sports Book of the Year is sport’s richest literary prize at £22,000 and... more |
| Carl Nixon the 2010/2011 recipient of the NZSA Beatson Fellowship
Congratulations to Carl Nixon who has received the 2010/2011 NZSA Beatson Fellowship. Carl will receive a $6,800 grant which he plans to put towards completing a new collection of fiction including his Katherine Mansfield Award winning story My Beautiful Balloon. Carl Nixon is...more |
| Random House author Sam Willetts has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Of 123 entries only 10 were chosen for the shortlist. New Light for the Old Dark has been well received also being shortlisted for The Forward Prize, the Aldeburgh and the New Poetry Award earlier this year. One of three judges, Anne Stevenson, said: ‘The judges have found this... more |
| Trailer for Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman wins public vote in Book Video Awards
Chris Moon and Yasmin al Naib, filmmakers from the National Film and Television School (NFTS), have been announced as the overall winners of the third annual Book Video Awards, run by The Bookseller and Random House.After just over a month of... more |
| James McNeish wins Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
James McNeish has won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement, in the non‐fiction category. The Award, which carries a purse of $60,000, was announced at a ceremony held at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Premier House, in Wellington... more |
| Belinda Bauer walks away with CWA Gold Dagger 2010
Congratulations to Random House author Belinda Bauer's who has walked away with the CWA Gold Dagger 2010 at this year's Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010 for her novel Blacklands. Bauer is delighted: "It was a thrill just to be shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for... more |
| David Grossman wins the 2010 German Book Trade's Peace Prize
Random House author David Grossman, of Israel, was awarded the German Book Trade's Peace Prize for 2010 at the Frankfurt book fair. Grossman, whose books mirror the complex and conflicting reality of life in... more
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