Cover: Contemporary NZ Photographers

Best Book

Contemporary New Zealand Photographers

Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life

by Alexa Johnston

Penguin Group NZ

Designer: Alan Deare, Inhouse Design

Contemporary New Zealand Photographers

by Hannah Holm and Lara Strongman

Mountain View Publishing

Designer: Neil Pardington, Base Two

Best Non-Illustrated Book

Afternoon of an Evening Train

by Gregory O'Brien

Victoria University Press

Designers: Gregory O'Brien and Victoria University Press, Sarah Maxey (cover)

Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand (boxed set)

by John Parker

Scholastic NZ Ltd

Designer: Vasanti Unka

Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun

by Janet Frame, illustrated by David Elliot

Vintage, Random House New Zealand

Designer: Christine Hansen