The Carpathians by Janet Frame (Century Hutchinson, 1988)
Non-Fiction
Tarawera: The Volcanic Eruption of 10 June 1886 by R. F. Keam (R. F. Keam, 1988)
Book Production
Fold of the Land: New Zealand’s National Parks from the Air, by Lloyd Homer designed by Bridget Williams (Allen & Unwin for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1988)
GOODMAN FIELDER WATTIE BOOK AWARDS
1st
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson (Victoria University Press, 1992)
2nd
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
3rd
Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Māori and Europeans, 1642–1772 by Anne Salmond (Viking, 1991)
NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS
Poetry
Milky Way Bar by Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press, 1991)
Fiction
Dangerous Desires by Peter Wells (Reed, 1991)
Non-Fiction
Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Māori and Europeans, 1642–1772 by Anne Salmond (Viking, 1991)
Book Production
At Home and Abroad: A Collection of Photographs by Robin Morrison (Tandem Press, 1991)