The Good Settler as New Zealand moves into

as New Zealand moves into the 2020s

’ — Judges of the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards

and the innovative approaches to their treatment and rehabilitation that were needed to ensure their eventual return to the wild

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The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors

The Good Settler as New Zealand moves intoIncisive, engaging writing on race and racism Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different. So writes Richard Shaw in his third book examining colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Both have been warmly