Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2025

Finalist

Designer: Duncan Munro

Title: In the Half Light of a Dying Day
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: 210 x 140mm, 92pp, paperback, section sewn. Cover printed 3c x 1c on 300gsm uncoated art card with matt aqueous varnish and embossing over the type and the hand-drawn cicada artwork.

Typography: Forevs and Domaine Text

Publisher’s Brief
“The brief was for a small book that was quietly strong in tone compared to the author’s more recent colourful and bold tendency. It needed to feel Classical, authoritative, the sense of a late-career masterpiece.”