Stephen Daisley

Books on prize lists

• A Better Place

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2024 · Shortlist

  A Better Place

  A Better Place

  Stephen Daisley · 68 when first published

  Novel · 224 pages · War, Historical, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:Roy Mitchell comes home to New Zealand from the Second World War a changed man and builds a hut above a creek; his twin brother Tony was killed on Crete in 1941.

• Coming Rain

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2016 · ★ Winner

  Coming Rain

  Coming Rain

  Stephen Daisley · 60 when first published

  Novel · 320 pages · Love, Nature

  AIAI-generated summary:In the wheatbelt of Western Australia in the 1950s, a young shearer who has worked beside an older, hard-drinking mate since boyhood falls for the daughter of the farmer whose sheep they have come to shear.