Collection: Catherine Chidgey
Author photo: Ebony Lamb
Catherine Chidgey’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and, for her 2016 novel The Wish Child, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. Her 2020 novel, Remote Sympathy, was shortlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Axeman’s Carnival (2022) won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Catherine's two most recent novels are the critically acclaimed Pet (2023) and The Book of Guilt (2025), also published by John Murray. Catherine lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.
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The Axeman's Carnival
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Remote Sympathy
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The Wish Child (Paperback)
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The Book of Guilt
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The Transformation
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The Beat of the Pendulum
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In a fishbone church
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The Axeman's Carnival (B Format)
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Pet (B Format)
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In a Fishbone Church (B Format)
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Pet (hardback)
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Pet (paperback)
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The Wish Child (Hardback)
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Golden Deeds
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