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Craig Cliff

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Craig Cliff’s debut collection of short stories, A MAN MELTING, was published in July 2010. It was named as one of the best books of 2010 by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star Times, and went on to win the overall Best First Book in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize. According to the judges, A MAN MELTING “is of the moment, and is rightly at home on a global platform. Cliff is a talent to watch and set to take the literary world by storm."

Craig wrote a column for the Dominion Post newspaper from 2010-2014 about his double life as a writer and a public servant (and, later, as a father).

THE MANNEQUIN MAKERS, a dark and wide-ranging historical novel, was published in August 2013. According to the New Zealand Listener, "it’s tremend ...more

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August-September Consumption Diary

MUSIC - AUGUST

BIOGRAPHICAL INTERLUDE

Box One

I'm one of the judges for the fiction section for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which means I need to read every novel and short story collection published in 2025 that is submitted for the awards. So far I've received two boxes of books (33 books in total) and there's at least one more box to come later in the year. I'd read three

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Average rating: 3.68 · 337 ratings · 60 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mannequin Makers 3.61 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man Melting 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Random Reader: New Zealand Short Stories Volume One by Craig Cliff (Goodreads Author), Fiona Farrell, Charlotte Grimshaw 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nailing Down the Saint 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Griffith REVIEW 44: Cultural Solutions by Julianne Schultz (Editor), Scott Rankin (Contributor), Vivienne Skinner (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Language it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing Galapagos 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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