2024 Ockham NZ Book Awards, longlist
Two Potton & Burton publications have been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, general non-fiction category, ‘Takahē: Bird of Dreams‘ and ‘Commune: Chasing a utopian dream’ in Aotearoa. In her book, Alison Ballance charts the inspiring story of the rediscovery and then recovery of the takahē, one of New Zealand’s most intriguing birds. Olive Jones’s deeply personal memoir describes life in the late 1970s and 80s on an alternative rural commune, Graham Downs, outside of Nelson.