and 2009, the top prize for non-fiction was the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction. There was no top prize for general non-fiction in 1996 or 1997. 2022 – Vincent O'Malley, Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. Bridget Williams Books 2021 – Vincent O'Sullivan, The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere: A Biographical Portrait. Penguin 2020 – Shayne Carter, Dead People I Have Known. Victoria University Press 2019 – Joanne Drayton, Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love. Otago University Press 2018 – Diana Wichtel, Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father. Awa Press 2017 – Ashleigh Young, Can You Tolerate This? Victoria University Press 2016 – Witi Ihimaera, Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood. Vintage 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors 2014 – Jill Trevelyan, Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer. Te Papa Press 2013 – Steve Braunias, Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World. Awa Press 2012 – Joan Druett, Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator. Random House NZ 2011 – Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964. Auckland University Press 2010 – Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820–1921. Bridget Williams Books 2009 – Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life. Te Papa Press 2008 – Janet Hunt, Wetlands of New Zealand. Random House NZ 2007 – Audrey Eagle, Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand. Te Papa Press 2006 – Philip Simpson, Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees. Te Papa Press 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 – Michael Cooper, Wine Atlas of New Zealand. Hodder Moa Beckett 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 – Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland University Press 1998 – Harry Orsman, Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles. Oxford University Press Best first book award (general non-fiction) Since 2019, this award has been