known as the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: E H McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction. Between 2015 and 2018, this award was known as the E H McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction. From 1997 to 2014, this award was known as the NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction Prize. In 1996, this award was known as the Best First Book Award, Non-Fiction. The award is named for New Zealand historian and biographer Eric Hall McCormick. 2022 – Dave Lowe, The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change. Te Herenga Waka University Press 2021 – Madison Hamill, Specimen: Personal Essays. Auckland University Press 2020 – Shayne Carter, Dead People I Have Known. Victoria University Press 2019 – Chessie Henry, We Can Make a Life. Victoria University Press 2018 – Diana Wichtel, Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father. Awa Press 2017 – Adam Dudding, My Father’s Island. Victoria University Press 2016 – Melissa Matutina Williams, Panguru and the City, Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: An Urban Migration History. Bridget Williams Books 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors 2014 – Rebecca Macfie, Tragedy at Pike River Mine. Awa Press 2013 – Quinn Berentson, Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird. Craig Potton Publishing 2012 – Michael Smythe, New Zealand by Design. Random House NZ 2011 – Poia Rewi, Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory. Auckland University Press 2010 – Pip Desmond, Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs. Random House NZ 2009 – Chris Brickell, Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand. Godwit Press 2008 – Alan Clarke, The Great Sacred Forest of Tane. Raupo Publishing 2007 – William Cottrell, Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830–1900. Reed Publishing 2006 – Patrick Snedden, Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It's Our Treaty Too. Random House NZ 2005 – Douglas Wright, Ghost Dance. Penguin Group (NZ) 2004 – Deidre Brown, Tai Tokerau Whakairo Rakau: Northland Maori Wood Carving. Reed Publishing 2003 – Sam Mahon, Year of the Horse. Longacre Press 2002 – Steve Braunias, Fool's Paradise. Random House 2001 – Paul Tapsell, Pukaki: A Comet Returns. Reed Publishing 2000 – Peter Thomson, Kava in the Blood. Tandem Press 1999 – Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Godwit Press 1998 – Genevieve Noser, Olives: the New Passion. Penguin Group (NZ) 1997 – Jessie Munro, The