Catherine Chidgey is “one of New Zealand’s greatest living writers” (Radio NZ). In a Fishbone Church won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia/South Pacific), as well as the Betty Trask Award (UK). Other honours include the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Catherine is the only writer to have won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice (The Wish Child and The Axeman’s Carnival). Of Pet, CrimeReads said I never thought I’d find a book to hold up to the contained brilliance of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but Pet has done that and more. The Book of Guilt sparked two international bidding wars and is published in May 2025.

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