Pip Adam

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• Audition

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2024 · Shortlist

  Audition

  Audition

  Pip Adam · 53 when first published

  Novel · 224 pages · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:Three giants, Alba, Stanley and Drew, are crammed into a spaceship racing towards a black hole: as long as they keep talking the ship moves, and when they fall silent their bodies start to grow again.

• Nothing to See

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2021 · Shortlist

  Nothing to See

  Nothing to See

  Pip Adam · 50 when first published

  Novel · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1994 Peggy and Greta, two recovering alcoholics who seem to share a single identity, are learning to stay sober: going to meetings, sorting donated clothes and living on almost nothing.

• The New Animals

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2018 · ★ Winner

  The New Animals

  The New Animals

  Pip Adam · 47 when first published

  Novel

  AIAI-generated summary:In Auckland's fashion world, three weary Generation X veterans, Carla, Sharon and Duey, meet three moneyed millennials, Tommy, Cal and Kurt, who are set on remaking the industry.