Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker

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Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker

Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker

@MBennettBooks

Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author. BETTER THE BLOOD out now in UK, Aust/NZ, and USA

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Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker
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Kia ora e hoa! I'm blessed with amazing teams at my overseas publishers, helping me bring Māori storytelling to the world. Look at these covers they've created alongside my daughter Mahina, a Māori artist, for UK and US hardcovers for book 3 in my Hana Westerman series #yeahnoir
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Terrific to see a trio of Ngaios winning storytellers - Michael Bennett, Liam McIlvanney & Steve Braunias headlining @rawafestival, among some terrific Kiwi writers, listed here and on full programme. Check out rawafestival.com and grab tix before they sell out #yeahnoir
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Bs and Cs... not a bad place on the bookshelf to be. At @Wimblestones we spied several terrific #yeahnoir tales and Kiwi authors hanging out near each other on their Fiction A-Z shelves, including several past Ngaios-winning novels and finalists #greatreads
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Congrats to 3x Ngaios winner Michael Bennett! CARVED IN BLOOD, the brilliant 3rd tale in his brilliant Hana Westerman series, is out in UK paperback today. Modern-day Crime Queen @ValMcDermid calls the series "cracking, page-turning" journeys into another culture #yeahnoir
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A handful of our Ngaios-winning #yeahnoir legends from over the years. Who is going to join them by scooping a trophy in the #2026Ngaios? Entries are now open for Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Kids/YA categories. Closing 4 Feb Open to New Zealand citizens or residents
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Lovely to spy FOUR Ngaios winning authors on the shelves at @Wimblestones yesterday, with RWR McDonald's new UK release THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING NECKLACE joining DV Bishop, @MBennettBooks and Jacqueline Bublitz, among fine international company #yeahnoir
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Congrats to Māori storyteller and history-making Ngaios winner Michael Bennett (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue), who found himself onstage again on Friday night as #TheGone S2 scooped four #NZSA2025 Awards, incl Best Drama Series. Michael is Exec Producer & co-screenwriter #yeahnoir
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Happy UK pub day to Best First Novel winner RWR McDonald 🎉🍾📚Intrepid investigative trio 'The Nancys' - 11yr old Tippy, her Uncle Pike and his bf Devon - are now unleashed for British readers in a “unique, enthralling mystery, perfectly seasoned with humour and heart” #yeahnoir
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Huge congrats to history-maker @MBennettBooks (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue) who by winning #2025Ngaios Best Novel for superb RETURN TO BLOOD becomes our 1st Best First Novel winner to later win Best Novel for a new book (and joins Paul Cleave as only 3x Ngaios winners!) #yeahnoir
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Some more pics from our #2025Ngaios evening. Left: finalists Gavin Strawhan, Stephen Tester and @CharityNorman1 with Best Novel winner @MBennettBooks. Right: modern-day Kiwi Queen of Crime @vandasymon with Best First Novel winner Wendy Parkins. #yeahnoir @WORDChCh
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From the @WORDChCh event in Dame Ngaio's hometown, our #2025Ngaios winners: Best Novel: RETURN TO BLOOD by @MBennettBooks Best Non-Fiction: THE CREWE MURDERS by @kirsty_johnston & James Hollings Best First Novel: THE DEFIANCE OF FRANCES DICKINSON by Wendy Parkins #yeahnoir

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With imminent announcement of #2025Ngaios winners across all three categories, a final shoutout to our wonderful Best Novel finalists. Superb array of #yeahnoir voices, of varying styles, settings, and stories, but sharing top quality storytelling and writing. A fab reading list.
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Past Ngaios Best Non-Fiction and Best First Novel winner @MBennettBooks has been hauled onstage by Ciaran and Brendon to help solve the mystery... or is he a suspect? #2025Ngaios #yeahnoir #CourtJesters @WORDChCh. Thanks Fiona of @ChristchurchLib for the pic!
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Onstage right now at our special #2025Ngaios event thanks to fab folks of @wordchch: the marvellous Ciaran & Brendon, our cosy crime fighters and renowned Court Jesters improv players!! We think theatre-loving Dame Ngaio would be tickled. Awards winners revealed soon #yeahnoir

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RETURN TO BLOOD is on the shortlist for the @auscrimewriters 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction! Congrats to Michael Bennett! 🥳 bit.ly/4oVMWeD
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