Born 1955 · New Zealand
NZ Book Awards 2019 · Shortlist
The Cage
Lloyd Jones · 63 when first published
Novel · 272 pages
AI-generated summary:Two men arrive at the hotel of a little rural town, unable to say who they are or what disaster they have escaped, and the townspeople set out to watch them.
NZ Book Awards 2007 · Winner
Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones · 51 when first published
Novel · Coming of age, War
AI-generated summary:On the island of Bougainville in 1991, as civil war closes in and the teachers have fled, the only white man left reopens the village school and reads Great Expectations aloud to thirteen-year-old Matilda and her classmates.
Also: Booker 2007 shortlist
NZ Book Awards 2002 · Shortlist
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Lloyd Jones · 47 when first published
Novel · 271 pages · Love, War
AI-generated summary:In a New Zealand restaurant a young dishwasher learns the tango from the owner, who tells him how her grandfather, hiding from the First World War draft in a coastal cave, taught a young woman to dance.
NZ Book Awards 2001 · Winner
The Book of Fame
Lloyd Jones · 45 when first published
Novel · 178 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In August 1905 a team of young, unknown rugby players sails from New Zealand for Britain, and over a long tour that also takes in France and America they become famous as the All Blacks.