(NZ) 2007 – Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip. Penguin 2006 (joint) – Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin 2006 (joint) – Fiona Kidman, The Captive Wife. Vintage 2005 – Julie Le Clerc and John Bougen, Made in Morocco: A Journey of Exotic Tastes and Places. Penguin Group (NZ) 2004 – Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin Group (NZ) 2003 – Glenn Colquhoun, Playing God. Steele Roberts 2002 – Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press 2001 – Michael King, Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking Press 2000 – Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney. Longacre Press 1999 – Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press 1998 – Edited by Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand Historical Atlas. David Bateman Booksellers' choice award The Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award was only presented in 2013 and 2014. 2014 – Harry Broad & Rob Suisted, Molesworth: Stories from New Zealand's largest high country station. Craig Potton Publishing 2013 – Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown & Geoff Spearpoint, Shelter from the Storm: The story of New Zealand's backcountry huts. Craig Potton Publishing Lifetime achievement award The A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature Award was presented in 2004. From 2000 to 2002 this award was known as the A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award. 2004 – Joy Cowley 2002 – Maurice Shadbolt 2001 – Dame Fiona Kidman 2000 – Allen Curnow Non-fiction category awards History This award ended in 2009. Before 2001, a single award was given for History and Biography. 2009 – Richard Boast, Buying the Land, Selling the Land. Victoria University Press 2008 – Hilary Mitchell & John Mitchell, Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka Volume II: Te Ara Hou – The New Society. Huia Publishers 2007 – Edited by K.R. Howe, Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors. David Bateman 2006 – Rosemary McLeod, Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s – 1950s. Vintage 2005 – Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design. Godwit Press 2004 – Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog. Allen Lane / Penguin Group (NZ) 2003 – Jim McAloon, No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury & Otago 1840 – 1914. University of Otago Press 2002 – Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press 2001 – Edited by Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O'Brien & Lara