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Pip Adam

Pip Adam is the author of four novels: Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and I’m Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction. Pip is the station manager at Wellington Access Radio. She makes the Better off Read podcast where she talks with authors about writing and reading.

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Fiction

224 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published July 2023
ISBN 9781922725462

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Part science fiction, part social realism, Pip Adam’s genre-bending new novel asks what happens when systems of power decide someone takes up too much room.

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Fiction

384 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published March 2021
ISBN 9781925818680

The women at the centre of Pip Adam’s uncanny novel seem on the brink of disappearing altogether. Nothing to See asks what it means to seek relief when the fabric of reality is ready to come apart.

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