Catherine Chidgey (born 8 April 1970) is an award-winning New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters;the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region); the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. She lives near Hamilton in New Zealand.
Genres: Historical, Mystery
New and upcoming books
Novels
In a Fishbone Church (1998)
Golden Deeds (2000)
aka The Strength of the Sun
The Transformation (2003)
The Wish Child (2017)
The Beat of the Pendulum (2018)
Remote Sympathy (2021)
The Axeman's Carnival (2022)
Pet (2023)
The Book of Guilt (2025)
Golden Deeds (2000)
aka The Strength of the Sun
The Transformation (2003)
The Wish Child (2017)
The Beat of the Pendulum (2018)
Remote Sympathy (2021)
The Axeman's Carnival (2022)
Pet (2023)
The Book of Guilt (2025)
Award nominations
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Catherine Chidgey recommends
She's a Killer (2021)
Kirsten McDougall
"McDougall's dystopian future is no distant vision: it's disturbingly familiar, urgently relevant. Narrator Alice is a brilliant creation - complex, prickly, often hilarious - and I was utterly in her thrall as she swept me along to the book's astonishing finale. Unputdownable."
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