Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Samuel Butler’s <i>Erewhon</i> – 1872
Chapter 2. Julius Vogel’s <i>Anno Domini 2000 or Woman’s Destiny</i> – 1889
Chapter 3. William Satchell’s <i>The Greenstone Door</i> – 1914
Chapter 4. Jane Mander’s <i>The Story of a New Zealand River</i> – 1920
Chapter 5. Robin Hyde’s <i>The Godwits Fly</i> – 1937
Chapter 6. John Mulgan’s <i>Man Alone</i> – 1939
Chapter 7. Ngaio Marsh’s <i>Died in the Wool</i> – 1945
Chapter 8. Ian Cross’s <i>The God Boy</i> – 1958
Chapter 9. Barry Crump’s <i>Hang on a Minute Mate</i> – 1961
Chapter 10. Bill Pearson’s <i>Coal Flat</i> – 1963
Chapter 11. Ronald Hugh Morrieson’s <i>Came a Hot Friday</i> – 1964
Chapter 12. David Ballantyne’s S<i>ydney Bridge Upside Down</i> — 1968
Chapter 13. Colin Gibson’s <i>The Pepper Leaf</i> – 1971
Chapter 14. Maurice Shadbolt’s <i>Strangers and Journeys</i> – 1972
Chapter 15. Ian Wedde’s <i>Dick Seddon’s Great Dive</i> – 1976
Chapter 16. M. K. Joseph’s <i>The Time of Achamoth</i> – 1978
Chapter 17. Maurice Gee’s <i>Plumb</i> – 1978
Chapter 18. Albert’s Wendt’s <i>Leaves of the Banyan Tree</i> – 1979
Chapter 19. Craig Harrison’s <i>The Quiet Earth</i> – 1982
Chapter 20. Sue McCauley’s <i>Other Halves</i> – 1982
Chapter 21. Peter Hooper’s <i>People of the Long Water</i> – 1985
Chapter 22. Janet Frame’s <i>The Envoy from Mirror City</i> – 1985
Chapter 23. Keri Hulme’s <i>The Bone People</i> – 1985
Chapter 24. Maurice Shadbolt’s <i>Season of the Jew</i> – 1986
Chapter 25. Fiona Kidman’s <i>The Book of Secrets</i> – 1987
Chapter 26. Patricia Grace’s <i>Potiki</i> – 1987
Chapter 27. Michael Jackson’s <i>Rainshadow</i> — 1988
Chapter 28. Gregory O’Brien’s <i>Diesel Mystic</i> – 1989
Chapter 29. John Cranna’s <i>Visitors</i> – 1990
Chapter 30. Peter Wells’s <i>Dangerous Desires</i> – 1991
Chapter 31. Barbara Anderson’s <i>Portrait of the Artist’s Wife</i> – 1992
Chapter 32. Fiona Farrell’s <i>The Skinny Louis Book</i> – 1992
Chapter 33. Graham Billington’s <i>The Chambered Nautilus</i> — 1993
Chapter 34. Damien Wilkins’s <i>The Miserables</i> – 1993
Chapter 35. Witi Ihimaera’s <i>Bulibasha</i> – 1994
Chapter 36. Kirsty Gunn’s <i>Rain</i> – 1994
Chapter 37. Jane Campion’s <i>The Piano</i> – 1994
Chapter 38. C. K. Stead’s <i>The Singing Whakapapa</i> – 1994
Chapter 39. Alan Duff’s <i>What Becomes of the Broken Hearted</i> – 1996
Chapter 40. Elizabeth Knox’s <i>The Vintner’s Luck</i> – 1998
Chapter 41. Maurice Gee’s <i>Live Bodies</i> — 1998
Chapter 42. Kapka Kassabova’s <i>Reconnaissance</i> — 1999
Chapter 43. Natasha Templeton’s <i>Winter in the Summer Garden</i> – 1999
Chapter 44. Sara Quigley’s <i>After Robert</i> – 1999
Chapter 45. Owen Marshall’s <i>Harlequin Rex</i> — 1999
Chapter 46. Catherine Chidgey’s <i>Golden Deeds</i> — 2000
Chapter 47. Vincent O’Sullivan’s <i>Let the River Stand</i> – 2001
Chapter 48. Charlotte Randall’s <i>The Curative</i> – 2001
Chapter 49. Lloyd Jones’s <i>The Book of Fame</i> – 2001
Chapter 50. Craig Marriner’s <i>Stonedogs</i> – 2001
Chapter 51. Stephanie Johnson’s <i>The Shag Incident</i> – 2002
Chapter 52. Annamarie Jagose’s <i>Slow Water</i> – 2003
Chapter 53. James George’s <i>Hummingbird</i> – 2004
Chapter 54. Chris Else’s <i>On River Road</i> — 2004
Chapter 55. Maurice Gee’s <i>Blindsight</i> — 2005
Chapter 56. Tim Corballis’s <i>The Fossil Pits</i> – 2005
Chapter 57. Emily Perkins’s <i>Novel about My Wife</i> – 2008
Chapter 58. Charlotte Grimshaw’s <i>Opportunity</i> – 2008
Chapter 59. Alison Wong’s <i>As the Earth Turns Silver</i> – 2010
Chapter 60. Laurence Fearnley’s <i>The Hut Builder</i> – 2010
Chapter 61. Patrick Evans’s <i>Gifted</i> – 2011
Chapter 62. Paula Morris’s <i>Rangatira</i> – 2011
Chapter 63. Hamish Clayton’s <i>Wulf</i> — 2011
Chapter 64. Eleanor Catton’s <i>The Luminaries</i> – 2013
Chapter 65. Anna Smaill’s <i>The Chimes</i> — 2015
Conclusion
