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Winner of the 2025 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award.
Shaun Barnett was a long-time writer and editor of Wilderness and Backcountry magazines, and wrote and photographed many of his own books about hiking and exploring the wilderness of Aotearoa. He died in 2024.
Reviews
WhatBookNext ~ Castle Grim has everything that middle-grade readers love. Action, adventure, friendship, courage, pirates, an orphanage, along with a dystopian setting on a treacherous piece of ocean between New Zealand’s North & South Islands (Cook Strait).
Winner of the Tom Fitzgibbon Award 2025, Castle Grim’s author Shaun Barnett wrote it whilst looking out from his writing desk at the Pencarrow & Haewai Lighthouses, which star in his book. I for one am glad that he stuck with Castle Grim over the 12 years in writing it. It’s a grand adventure with kiwi kids doing extraordinary things in a dystopian New Zealand.
The Sapling ~ This posthumously published tale is a rollicking adventure, which examines so many prescient issues: environmental collapse, human cooperation, how we care for those in need. Appealing to readers of dystopian fiction, but also adventure seekers of all stripes—the writing is propulsive and utterly enjoyable.
