The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been announced. The winners will be announced on May 14.

Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize:

• The New Ships by Kate Duignan
• The Cage by Lloyd Jones
• This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
• All This By Chance by Vincent O’Sullivan

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry:

• Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
• There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime by Erik Kennedy
• The Facts by Theres Lloyd
• Poukahangtus by Tayi Tibble

Illustrated Non-Fiction:

• Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forest by Paul Bensemann
• Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor edited by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith.
• Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing by Sean Mallon and Sebastien Galliot
• Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman

Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-Fiction:

• Hudson and Halls: The Food of Love by Joanne Drayton
• Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
• We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry
• With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War by Anna Rogers