Nigel Cox

Books on prize lists

• The Cowboy Dog

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2007 · Shortlist

  The Cowboy Dog

  The Cowboy Dog

  Nigel Cox · 55 when first published

  Novel · 204 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Raised in Auckland as 'Mr Dog' after his father was shot down when he was twelve, eighteen-year-old Chester Farlowe rides back to the cattle country of New Zealand's Volcanic Plateau to take revenge on the killer.

• Responsibility

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2006 · Shortlist

  Responsibility

  Responsibility

  Nigel Cox · 55 when first published

  Novel · 192 pages · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Martin Rumsfield, a New Zealand museums expert in present-day Berlin who feels boxed in by work and family, is tempted when a shady figure from his past turns up with a sure-fire scheme to cheat the cheats.

• Tarzan Presley

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2005 · Shortlist

  Tarzan Presley

  Tarzan Presley

  Nigel Cox · 53 when first published

  Novel · 463 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:A boy who grows up among gorillas in the bush of New Zealand's Wairarapa in the 1930s is discovered, brought to America to be raised as a Presley, and becomes a rock 'n' roll star.