2025 Awards

BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa

Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins

Auckland University Press

Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist

Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson

Massey University Press

Fenoga Tāoga Niue I Aotearoa: Niue Heritage Journey in Aotearoa

Molima Molly Pihigia, Toluma'anave Barbara Makuati-Afitu, Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai, Hikule'o Fe'aomoeako Melaia Māhina and Janson Chau

Mafola Press

Force of Nature Te Aumangea o Te Ao Tūroa: A Conservation History of Forest & Bird 1923-2023

David Young and Naomi Arnold

Potton & Burton

Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s

Phoebe H. Li

Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust

Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer

Athol McCredie

Te Papa Press

Sam the Trap Man: Cracking Yarns and Tall Tales from the Bush

Sam Gibson

Allen & Unwin New Zealand

Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa

Kirsty Baker

Auckland University Press

Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa

Matiu Baker (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Whakaue), Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice

Te Papa Press

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art

Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu), Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī)

Auckland University Press