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exciting read
fantasy
Fiordland
middle grade novel
old magic
supernatural
te ao Maori
Product details
- ISBN 9781991142221
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
- Publication City/Country: NZ
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sonya Wilson is an award-winning novelist, journalist, television reporter, presenter and producer. She has a degree in Broadcasting Communications and has worked across a variety of platforms and programmes including TVNZ's Breakfast, 1News, 20/20, Sunday and Q+A programmes.
She also has a Masters in Creative Writing with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. Her first novel, Spark Hunter, has made several bestseller and best-of lists since its release in October 2021. It won the NZSA Best First Book Award at the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, a Storylines Notable Book Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the Esther Glen Junior Fiction prize.
Sonya also writes essays, reviews and opinion pieces for a variety of publications including North & South, Newsroom, Canvas and The Spinoff, and produces and hosts the Bookland Presents: How to Love podcast series.
She is the founder and chief executive of the charity Kiwi Christmas Books (www.kiwichristmasbooks.org.nz) and is the co-director of a small film and television post-production company with her husband, colourist Pete Ritchie.
She also has a Masters in Creative Writing with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. Her first novel, Spark Hunter, has made several bestseller and best-of lists since its release in October 2021. It won the NZSA Best First Book Award at the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, a Storylines Notable Book Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the Esther Glen Junior Fiction prize.
Sonya also writes essays, reviews and opinion pieces for a variety of publications including North & South, Newsroom, Canvas and The Spinoff, and produces and hosts the Bookland Presents: How to Love podcast series.
She is the founder and chief executive of the charity Kiwi Christmas Books (www.kiwichristmasbooks.org.nz) and is the co-director of a small film and television post-production company with her husband, colourist Pete Ritchie.
