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# Otago University Press

Otago University Press publishes scholarly and culturally significant non-fiction with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.

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- [A joyful celebration for Out of the Box in Wellington](https://oup.nz/a-joyful-celebration-for-out-of-the-box-in-wellington/) - On Saturday 18 July, we celebrated the launch of Out of the Box by Trish Harris at Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui | Wellington Central Library. Friends, contributors, whānau and supporters gathered to mark the publication of this collection, which shares the stories of 25 Deaf and disabled artists, activists and adventurers from Aotearoa
- [Book Launch: Offshore Service by Craig Cliff](https://oup.nz/book-launch-offshore-service-by-craig-cliff/) - Craig Cliff, Otago University Press, Dunedin City Library and Paper Plus Dunedin warmly invite you to the book launch of Offshore Service and Other Stories by Craig Cliff. Arrive at 5:30pm for a 6pm start Wednesday 19 August Dunningham Suite, Level 4, Dunedin City Library 230 Moray Place, Ōtepoti Dunedin Please RSVP to: publicity@otago.ac.nz by
- [Book Launch: Out of the Box by Trish Harris](https://oup.nz/book-launch-out-of-the-box-by-trish-harris/) - Trish Harris, Otago University Press, Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui | Wellington Central Library and Unity Books Wellington warmly invite you to the book launch of Out of the Box by Trish Harris. Join us for an afternoon celebrating Deaf and disability pride, featuring dance by Rodney Bell, music by Fonotī Pati Umaga and poetry
- [Uzair Khan wins 2026 Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize](https://oup.nz/uzair-khan-wins-2026-landfall-tauraka-young-writers-essay-competition/) - Tāmaki Makaurau resident Uzair Khan has been announced as the winner of this year’s Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize. His winning essay, ‘The Bright Ones,’ explores what it means to be seventeen and ambitious in a country that treats ambition with gentle scepticism. Here, Khan tries to bridge the gap between wanting to leave
- [John Prins wins Best First Book, Ockham NZ Book Awards](https://oup.nz/john-prins-wins-best-first-book-ockham-nz-book-awards/) - We are delighted to announce that OUP author John Prins has won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction – Best First Book at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The award was presented for Pastoral Care, Prins’ debut collection of short stories and the second title in our Landfall Tauraka Short Story series. Each
- [Launching Pepeha Portal by Ariana Tikao](https://oup.nz/launching-pepeha-portal-by-ariana-tikao/) - On Thursday 16th of April, we launched the debut collection, Pepeha Portal by Ariana Tikao, at the wonderful Scorpio Books. There were amazing speeches and readings from Ross Calman, Tama-te-ra Tikao Calman, Matahana Tikao Calman (who provided a speech and poem that was read by Ross Calman), Ciaran Fox publisher Sue Wootton, and Ariana Tikao
- [What We Remember, What We Forget launched](https://oup.nz/what-we-remember-what-we-forget-launched/) - On Thursday, 7 May, we celebrated the launch of What We Remember, What We Forget: A memoir in memory by Siobhan Harvey at Unity Books Auckland. Friends, readers, writers and supporters gathered to mark the publication of this award-winning memoir, which explores themes of family, illness, memory and loss. The evening opened with a welcome
- [Author Talk: What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey](https://oup.nz/5144-2/) - Join us for a special author event celebrating the release of What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey. Enjoy an afternoon of readings and conversation as Siobhan shares more about her award-winning book. The event will also feature guest readings from Maggie Rainey-Smith, Harry Ricketts, Mark Pirie, and Cameron Doherty. All are welcome!
- [Book Launch: What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey](https://oup.nz/book-launch-what-we-remember-what-we-forget-by-siobhan-harvey/) - Siobhan Harvey, Otago University Press and Unity Books Auckland warmly invite you to the book launch of the award-winning, What We Remember, What We Forget: A memoir in memory by Siobhan Harvey. What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey is a personal narrative and poignant meditation on the power and peril of remembering
- [Launching 'A Day Like No Other' by James Norcliffe](https://oup.nz/launching-a-day-like-no-other-by-james-norcliffe/) - On Wednesday March 11, we came together to celebrate the release of A Day Like No Other: Selected poems by James Norcliffe. Hosted by the wonderful Scorpio Books in Christchurch, we had a great crowd to celebrate the incredible work of James Norcliffe captured in this new collection. Erik Kennedy was kind enough to
- [Rescheduled Book Launch: The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner](https://oup.nz/rescheduled-book-launch-the-gum-trees-of-kerikeri-by-lynn-jenner/) - We are excited to announce that we have rescheduled our special Kerikeri book launch for The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner. To be launched by Kim Martins and proudly sponsored by the New Zealand Poetry Society. All welcome! Main Hall, The Cornerstone Church, 144 Kerikeri Road Saturday 18 April, 2pm – 4:00pm
- [Book Launch: Pepeha Portal by Ariana Tikao](https://oup.nz/launching-pepeha-portal/) - Ariana Tikao, Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Pepeha Portal. Pepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory, place and connection. Arrive at
- [Dunedin Launch for The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner](https://oup.nz/dunedin-launch-for-the-gum-trees-of-kerikeri/) - On Thursday 19 March, we launched the award-winning collection, The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner, at the University Book Shop here in Ōtepoti Dunedin. It was a lovely evening of poetry and celebrations. We'd like to thank UBS Otago for hosting us and David Eggleton for kindly launching this beautiful new collection.
- [Invisible Intelligence audiobook out now](https://oup.nz/invisible-intelligence-audiobook-out-now/) - We're excited to announce the release of the audiobook for our bestselling book, Invisible Intelligence: Why your child might not be failing by Welby Ings. Produced by Audiobooks NZ and read by the author, Welby Ings, this is a fantastic way to read this inspiring pukapuka. The audiobook can now be purchased where all
- [2026 Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist announcement](https://oup.nz/the-2026-ockham-nz-book-awards-longlist-announcement/) - The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist is here, and we’re thrilled to see two OUP books included: Books of Mana: 180 Māori-authored books of significance and Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life. A massive congratulations to the editors of Books of Mana – Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira – and all the
- [Two Book Launches: The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner](https://oup.nz/two-book-launches-the-gum-trees-of-kerikeri-by-lynn-jenner/) - Winner of the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner is a beautifully crafted and quietly compelling tour de force. To celebration this new collection, we'll be hosting two book launches, the first in Ōtepoti Dunedin and the second in Kerikeri Northland. DUNEDIN Join us at the University
- [Book Launch: A Day Like No Other by James Norcliffe](https://oup.nz/book-launch-a-day-like-no-other-by-james-norcliffe/) - Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of A Day Like No Other: Selected poems by James Norcliffe. James Norcliffe, awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2022, is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished and beloved contemporary poets. A Day Like No Other gathers
- [Celebrating Ruth Dallas](https://oup.nz/celebrating-ruth-dallas/) - On Saturday 22 November, we gathered at the Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library, to celebrate the double book launch of Ruth Dallas: A writer's life by Diana Morrow and This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas Collected Poems edited by Nicola Cummins. It was a beautiful event and we thank everyone who came to help us On Saturday 22 November, we gathered at the Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library, to celebrate the double book launch of Ruth Dallas: A writer's life by Diana Morrow and This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas Collected Poems edited by Nicola Cummins. It was a beautiful event and we thank everyone who came to help us celebrate.
- [Launching Overland to the Island](https://oup.nz/launching-overland-to-the-island/) - On Thursday 27 November, we launched Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck by Hannah Bulloch. A massive thank you to the University Book Shop Otago for hosting us in their lovely space. We had some amazing speeches, including from author Hannah Bulloch and Hannah's uncle, Alan On Thursday 27 November, we launched Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck by Hannah Bulloch at the University Book Shop Otago.
- [Book Launch | Overland to the Island by Hannah Bulloch](https://oup.nz/book-launch-overland-to-the-island-by-hannah-bulloch/) - We warmly invite you to the book launch of Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck by Hannah Bulloch. Overland to the Island tells the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod’s 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland with
- [Double Book Launch | An Afternoon with Ruth Dallas](https://oup.nz/double-book-launch-an-afternoon-with-ruth-dallas/) - Join us to celebrate the life and work of Ruth Dallas with a special double book launch for the new biography, Ruth Dallas: A writer's life by Diana Morrow and the new edition of Ruth's collected poems, This Moment, Every Moment: collected poems of Ruth Dallas edited by Nicola Cummins. The afternoon will start with Join us to celebrate the life and work of Ruth Dallas with a special double book launch for the new biography, Ruth Dallas: A writer's life by Diana Morrow and the new edition of Ruth's collected poems, This Moment, Every Moment: collected poems of Ruth Dallas edited by Nicola Cummins.
- [Book Tour | Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades](https://oup.nz/book-tour-hiding-places-by-lynley-edmeades/) - We’re excited to announce that Lynley Edmeades is going on tour for her new book, Hiding Places! Ōtautahi | Christchurch Lynley Edmeades in conversation with Kiran Dass. 5.30pm for a 6pm startThursday 27 November 2025Scorpio Books120 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central CityPlease RSVP here: tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVPFacebook event page here Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Lynley Edmeades in conversation with
- [Launching Landfall Tauraka 250](https://oup.nz/launching-landfall-tauraka-250/) - On Thursday 16 October, we celebrated the launch of Landfall Tauraka 250 and the opening of the accompanying exhibition in Special Collections. We’re grateful to Head Curator Kirstie Ross and Liaison Curator Alexander Ritchie, for their superb work on the exhibition. Sincere thanks also to Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson for launching the book and officially opening
- [Tasmin Prichard wins 2025 Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize](https://oup.nz/tasmin-prichard-wins-2025-landfall-tauraka-essay-prize/) - Tasmin Prichard has won this year’s Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize for their essay, ‘Four Hours in the Dark, Forgetting’, a quiet and intimate retelling of their experience undergoing gender-affirming top surgery. ‘I’d always meant to write about surgery, but the idea took a while to percolate and it took nearly three years until I was Tasmin Prichard has won this year’s Landfall Essay Prize for their essay, ‘Four Hours in the Dark, Forgetting’, a quiet and intimate retelling of their experience undergoing gender-affirming top surgery.
- [Lynn Jenner wins 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award](https://oup.nz/lynn-jenner-wins-2025-kathleen-grattan-poetry-award/) - Poet Lynn Jenner has won the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript ‘The Gum Trees of Kerikeri’, a collection set in Te Tai Tokerau Northland that reflects on place, history and belonging through finely observed details. Jenner started writing her manuscript in late 2024 and wrote through summer, autumn and winter. ‘Days of Poet Lynn Jenner has won the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript ‘The Gum Trees of Kerikeri’, a collection set in Te Tai Tokerau Northland that reflects on place, history and belonging through finely observed details.
- [Landfall Tauraka celebrates 250 issues](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka-celebrates-250-issues/) - Landfall Tauraka is celebrating its 250th edition with a new name, a literary symposium, a special exhibition and a bumper issue. Laura Hewson talks to those involved about the evolution of Landfall and why it’s still going strong after nearly 80 years of publication. Avid consumers of Landfall – now Landfall Tauraka – may notice
- [Siobhan Harvey discusses her latest collection of poetry, <em>Ghosts</em>.](https://oup.nz/siobhan-harvey-discusses-her-latest-collection-of-poetry-ghosts/) - Ghosts is a book about migration, outcasts and the search, common to us all, for home.
- [Launching Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://oup.nz/launching-histories-of-hate-the-radical-right-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/) - We launched the long-awaited book, Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, at the brilliant Unity Books Wellington on 9 March.
- [Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2024](https://oup.nz/megan-kitching-and-robyn-maree-pickens-longlisted-for-the-laurel-prize-2024/) - The longlist for The Laurel Prize 2024 has been announced and 2 of our poets have made the list! At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching & Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens
- [Launching Blue Hour by Jo McNeice](https://oup.nz/launching-blue-hour-by-jo-mcneice/) - On Thursday 7 November, we joyfully launched the award-winning collection, Blue Hour by Jo McNeice, at Schrödinger’s Books
- [Launching The Intimacy Bus by Janet Charman](https://oup.nz/launching-the-intimacy-bus-by-janet-charman/) - On the evening of Thursday 13 March 2025, we launched Janet Charman's new collection, The Intimacy Bus.
- [The Mad Diva book launch tour](https://oup.nz/the-mad-diva-book-launch-tour/) - In early April 2025 we released the stunning debut collection, Mad Diva by Cadence Chung.
- [Ava Reid wins the 2025 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/ava-reid-wins-the-2025-landfall-young-writers-essay-competition/) - Ōtepoti resident Ava Reid has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition. Her winning essay is Two and a Half Mealworms.
- [Launching The Midnight Plane by Fiona Kidman](https://oup.nz/launching-the-midnight-plane-by-fiona-kidman/) - On Thursday 29 May 2025 we launched The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems by Fiona Kidman at Unity Books Wellington.
- [Book Launch | Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades](https://oup.nz/book-launch-hiding-places-by-lynley-edmeades/) - Join us for the book launch of Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades. To be launched by Emma Neale at 5:30pm on Thurs 18 Sept 2025 at University Book Shop, Dunedin.
- [Launching Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades](https://oup.nz/launching-hiding-places-by-lynley-edmeades/) - On 18 September, we held a book launch for Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades at the University Book Shop Otago. Read the launch speech by Emma Neale here.
- [Tina Makereti wins 2022 Landfall Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/tina-makereti-wins-2022-landfall-essay-competition/) - Tina Makereti has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Landfall Essay Competition with her striking essay about her journey surviving breast cancer.
- [Launching Letter to 'Oumuamua by James Norcliffe](https://oup.nz/launching-letter-to-oumuamua-by-james-norcliffe/) - On the 23 February, we gathered at Scorpio Books in Christchurch to celebrate the launch of Letter to 'Oumuamua by award-winning poet & novelist James Norcliffe
- [Launching Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022 by David Eggleton](https://oup.nz/launching-respirator-a-poet-laureate-collection-2019-2022-by-david-eggleton/) - On 29 March, we launched David Eggleton's Poet Laureate Collection, Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022 at Dunedin's fantastic University Book Shop
- [Launching At the Point of Seeing](https://oup.nz/launching-at-the-point-of-seeing/) - On the evening of the winter solstice, Thursday 22nd June, we came together to celebrate the release of Megan Kitching's debut poetry collection, At the Point of Seeing.
- [Launching <em>Heart Stood Still</em> by Miriam Sharland](https://oup.nz/launching-heart-stood-still-by-miriam-sharland/) - We launched Heart Stood Still by Miriam Sharland on 9 May at the Palmerston North City Library with Bruce McKenzie Booksellers there to run a bookstall for us.
- [Launching 'Meantime' by Majella Cullinane](https://oup.nz/launching-meantime-by-majella-cullinane/) - On 23 May, we launched Meantime, the new collection by poet Majella Cullinane. We had a wonderful evening celebrating at the University Book Shop in Dunedin.
- [Origins of Māori and Moriori instruments explored](https://oup.nz/origins-of-maori-and-moriori-instruments-explored/) - Passion and perseverance have paid off for Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole as her book on Māori and Moriori instruments (taonga pūoro) is set to be launched this week, a decade after the project was first conceived.
- [Launching <em>Echoes from Hawaiki</em>](https://oup.nz/launching-echoes-from-hawaiki/) - On Thursday 20 June, we launched Echoes from Hawaiki: The origins and development of Māori and Moriori musical instruments by Jennifer Cattermole.
- [Launching <em>Power to Win</em> by Lyndy McIntyre](https://oup.nz/launching-power-to-win-by-lyndy-mcintyre/) - On Thursday 4 July, we launched Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre at Unity Books Wellington.
- [Launching Forms of Freedom and Koe](https://oup.nz/launching-forms-of-freedom-and-koe/) - In August 2024, we had two book launches for our new releases, Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougal McNeill and Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited by Janet Newman and Robert Sullivan.
- [Launching The Twisted Chain](https://oup.nz/launching-the-twisted-chain/) - On Wednesday 11 September we launched The Twisted Chain by Jason Gurney with friends and whanau at te Wharewaka o Pōneke
- [Announcing the Landfall Tauraka short story series](https://oup.nz/announcing-the-landfall-tauraka-short-story-series/) - Landfall and Otago University Press are excited to announce a new series of short story collections with the publication of the inaugural title, Pretty Ugly, by award-winning writer Kirsty Gunn.
- [Otago poets praised at prestigious International awards](https://oup.nz/otago-poets-praised-at-prestigious-international-awards/) - Two University of Otago alumni have won awards in the prestigious Laurel Prize for poetry.
- [Launching Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit by Emma Neale](https://oup.nz/launching-liar-liar-lick-spit-by-emma-neale/) - On Thursday 14 November, we launched Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the stunning new collection by Ōtepoti poet and writer, Emma Neale.
- [Joint-winners announced for 2024 Landfall Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/joint-winners-announced-for-2024-landfall-essay-competition/) - Landfall Essay Competition judge Lynley Edmeades has announced the joint winners of this year’s competition: Franchesca Walker for her essay ‘Unsteady ground’ and Hannah August for her essay ‘Response to a restructure’.
- [OUP titles shortlisted in Ockham Book Awards](https://oup.nz/oup-titles-shortlisted-in-ockham-book-awards/) - Two books published by Otago University Press (OUP) have been shortlisted for the country’s top literary honours.
- [Launching Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong](https://oup.nz/launching-touch-screen-by-philip-armstrong/) - On Thursday 3 July 2025, we came together to celebrate the launch of Philip Armstrong’s new poetry collection, Touch Screen.
- [Q&A: Lynley Edmeades on Landfall 242](https://oup.nz/qa-lynley-edmeades-on-landfall-242/) - Landfall 242 will be editor Lynley Edmeades' first edition. Here she discusses how she approached the tricky selection process and what we can expect from Landfall 242 and beyond.
- [Launching Deep Colour by Diana Bridge](https://oup.nz/launching-deep-colour-by-diana-bridge/) - We celebrated the release of Deep Colour by Diana Bridge in Wellington at Unity Books on 20 April. It was a brilliant night of poetry, with a fantastic launch speech from fellow poet, Harry Rickett
- [Launching Katherine Mansfield's Europe](https://oup.nz/aunching-katherine-mansfields-europe-launching-katherine-mansfields-europe/) - On May 2, we launched Katherine Mansfield's Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska at the National Library in Wellington. The book was launched for us by the wonderful Fiona Kidman.
- [Xiaole Zhan wins 2023 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/xiaole-zhan-wins-2023-landfall-young-writers-essay-competition/) - Xiaole Zhan has been announced the winner of the 2023 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition with their vivid, lyrical essay, 'Muscle Memory'.
- [Launching Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens](https://oup.nz/launching-tung-by-robyn-maree-pickens/) - We launched Robyn Maree Pickens’ wonderful debut poetry collection, Tung, in Dunedin at the University Book Shop on 16 August. We had some great kai from The Tart Tin and Precinct Catering, and the book was launched for us by David Eggleton.
- [Landfall and non/fictionLab announce collaboration for 2024](https://oup.nz/landfall-and-non-fictionlab-announce-collaboration-for-2024/) - Otago University Press is excited to announce that Landfall and RMIT University’s non/fictionLab are coming together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’.
- [Siobhan Harvey wins 2023 Landfall Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/siobhan-harvey-wins-2023-landfall-essay-competition/) - Protection for queer communities and their rights lies at the heart of this year’s Landfall Essay Competition winning essay, “A Jigsaw of Broken Things" by Siobhan Harvey.
- [Jo McNeice wins the 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award](https://oup.nz/jo-mcneice-wins-the-2023-kathleen-grattan-poetry-award/) - Wellington-based poet Jo McNeice has been awarded this year’s Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript, Blue Hour.
- [Emma Hughes wins 2024 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Competition](https://oup.nz/emma-hughes-wins-2024-landfall-young-writers-essay-competition/) - Emma Hughes has been announced as the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner for her moving essay, ‘Fourteen Robyns’.
- [Geology’s fossil expert awarded Emeritus Professor](https://oup.nz/geologys-fossil-expert-awarded-emeritus-professor/) - In recognition of her outstanding career as one of New Zealand’s most dedicated and passionate palaeontologists, Department of Geology’s Honorary Professor Daphne Lee has been awarded the title of Emeritus Professor.
- [Launching Power to Win in Auckland and Manawatū](https://oup.nz/launching-power-to-win-in-auckland-and-manawatu/) - In August, Lyndy McIntyre went out on the road to launch her book Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand Auckland and Manawatū.
- [‘Books of Mana’ a tribute to significant Māori writing](https://oup.nz/books-of-mana-a-tribute-to-significant-maori-writing/) - A carefully curated reading list of Māori non-fiction books has become the inspiration for a book of its own.

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- [HOME](https://oup.nz/) - Otago University Press publishes scholarly and culturally significant non-fiction, short fiction and poetry with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific
- [SUBMISSIONS](https://oup.nz/submissions/) - We welcome submissions of non-fiction and poetry that reflect the richness of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific.
- [Other Landfall Tauraka publications](https://oup.nz/other-landfall-tauraka-publications/) - Beyond the journal itself, Landfall Tauraka supports outstanding writing through two companion publications: the Landfall Tauraka Short Story series and the Strong Words anthologies. Landfall Tauraka Short Story Series Celebrating the art of short fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand, this annual series publishes book-length collections by both established and emerging writers. Authors whose short fiction
- [COMPETITIONS](https://oup.nz/competitions/) - OUP celebrates bold, original voices through 3 prizes - Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize, Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize
- [NEWS](https://oup.nz/news/) - Read all the latest news from Otago University Press and learn about our coming events, including launches of our latest books.
- [ABOUT US](https://oup.nz/about/) - Otago University Press publishes scholarly and culturally significant non-fiction, short fiction and poetry with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific
- [LANDFALL TAURAKA](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka/) - Landfall Tauraka is Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest-running arts and literary journal. For more than 75 years, we’ve published the best in local writing and art.
- [](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka-draft/) - WHAT WE PUBLISH We welcome original, unpublished submissions from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pacific writers, or work connected to the region by theme or setting. Australian work is occasionally included as a special feature. Poetry: up to 5 poems per issue Prose: up to 2 pieces (maximum 3000 words per piece, including endnotes) All submissions
- [Avertise with Landfall Tauraka](https://oup.nz/avertise/) - Reach a dedicated audience of readers, writers, artists and literary organisations by advertising in Landfall Tauraka, Aotearoa New Zealand's longest-running literary journal. Advertising rates Ad size Dimensions Rate (NZD) Full page 169 h × 116 w mm $275 Half page 82 h × 116 w mm $190 All rates exclude GST. Advertisements must be supplied
- [About Landfall Tauraka](https://oup.nz/about-landfall-tauraka/) - Landfall Tauraka is Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal. Founded in 1947 by poet and publisher Charles Brasch, it has been at the heart of the country’s literary and cultural life for nearly 80 years. Published twice yearly by Otago University Press, the journal showcases new poetry, fiction, essays, art, criticism and reviews from established
- [Landfall Tauraka subscription](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka-subscription-2/) - To subscribe to Landfall Tauraka (two issues per year), please complete the form below.
- [Landfall Tauraka back issues](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka-back-issues/) - To obtain a quote for back issues of Landfall Tauraka, please complete this form. Some issues you request may be out of stock.
- [Landfall Tauraka Young Writers' Essay Prize Past Winners](https://oup.nz/lt-young-writers-essay-prize-past-winners/) - The Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize is an annual award open to writers aged 16 to 25. See the list of past winners.
- [Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize Past Winners](https://oup.nz/lt-essay-prize-past-winners/) - Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand are invited to submit essays that engage with and reflect on our culture. See the list of past winners.
- [Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award Past Winners](https://oup.nz/kathleen-grattan-poetry-award-past-winners/) - A biennial prize for an original book-length poetry collection by a New Zealand or South Pacific permanent resident or citizen. See the list of past winners.
- [OUP Website: Visitor Feedback](https://oup.nz/oup-website-visitor-feedback/) - If you wish to provide feedback on our website, please complete this form. We welcome your views.
- [OUP Submission: Poetry](https://oup.nz/oup-submission-poetry/) - Poetry guidelines: What to submit, deadlines for submissions and submission form. We publish a maximum of five poetry books per year.
- [OUP Submission: Non-fiction](https://oup.nz/oup-submission-non-fiction/) - Non-fiction guidelines: Proposal checklist, submission dates and submission form. We accept both proposals and completed manuscripts.
- [OUP Submission: Landfall Tauraka](https://oup.nz/oup-submission-landfall-tauraka/) - Submissions welcome from Aotearoa New Zealand & Pacific writers, or work connected to the region by theme or setting. Australian work is occasionally included.
- [OUP Contact form](https://oup.nz/oup-contact-form/) - If you have a general enquiry about Otago University Press, please submit it on this form.
- [Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize entry form](https://oup.nz/lt-young-writers-essay-prize/) - To enter this competition, please complete this form. Your entry will be automatically acknowledged.
- [Landfall Tauraka subscription](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka-subscription/) - To subscribe to Landfall Tauraka (2 issues per year), please complete this form.
- [Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize entry form](https://oup.nz/lt-essay-prize/) - To enter this competition, please complete this form. Your entry will be automatically acknowledged.
- [Corpus: conversations about medicine and life](https://oup.nz/corpus/) - Corpus: conversations about medicine and life - Otago University Press
- [CATEGORIES](https://oup.nz/categories/) - View books published by Otago University Press (Te Whare Tā o Ōtakou Whakaihu Waka). Sort by title, category, year and author.
- [Landfall Tauraka archive](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka/landfall-tauraka-archive/) - The Landfall Archive is hosted by Otago University Press. It offers for the first time free public access to the fine writing (and art) that appeared in the pages of the literary journal’s earliest issues.
- [Landfall Tauraka Review Online](https://oup.nz/landfall-tauraka/landfall-tauraka-review-online/) - The Landfall Tauraka Review is the online companion to Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal. For nearly 15 years, we’ve published sharp, substantial reviews every month, extending the magazine’s critical voice into the digital space.
- [Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award](https://oup.nz/kathleen-grattan-poetry-award/) - Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award. To enter this competition, please complete this form. Your entry will be automatically acknowledged.

## Books

- [Hiapo](https://oup.nz/library/hiapo-2/) - First published in 2005, Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth remains the landmark study of one of the Pacific’s most remarkable yet little-known art traditions. ‘Hiapo’ is the Niuean word for barkcloth or tapa. Produced primarily in the nineteenth century, these extraordinary painted cloths combine striking visual beauty with rich cultural and historical significance.
- [A Place Made for You?](https://oup.nz/library/a-place-made-for-you/) - In A Place Made for You?, John Paul Ryan turns to the Hokonui hills of Murihiku, a significant landscape in the far south of Te Waipounamu, to explore the concept of ‘regard for place’. Born into a local farming family, Ryan has known the Southland region all his life. Why, he asks, do these modest,
- [Offshore Service](https://oup.nz/library/offshore-service/) - ‘But I couldn’t go home just yet. I would not be a man in anyone’s eyes. That’s how I wound up working for Anton, servicing the coal ships stranded off the coast.' —from ‘Offshore Service’ In Offshore Service and Other Stories, award-winning author Craig Cliff explores the emotional, economic, cultural and climatic forces that drive
- [Out of the Box](https://oup.nz/library/out-of-the-box/) - Accessibility: Currently available in hardcover. Additional accessible formats are planned. View a sample: ‘Deaf or disabled people get put in a box. It’s frustrating, it’s tiring and it’s boring. I want that box to be broken open!’ —Mojo Mathers In Out of the Box, an illustrated book for readers aged 12+, author Trish Harris shares
- [Feral and Other stories](https://oup.nz/library/feral-and-other-stories/) - Feral and Other Stories is an electrifying debut from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland writer Isabel Haarhaus. These vivid and beautifully written stories explore desire, exclusion, loneliness and friendship, often from the viewpoint of girls, women or migrants – outsiders by virtue of circumstance or temperament – who yearn, with passionate and dangerous intensity, to belong. Set
- [What We Remember, What We Forget](https://oup.nz/library/what-we-remember-what-we-forget/) - Category Winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US) Highly Commended in the 2024 Bridport Memoir Award (UK) We are our memories. They are a repository of our lives. What We Remember, What We Forget by Siobhan Harvey is a personal narrative and poignant meditation on the power and peril of remembering – as
- [Eyewitness](https://oup.nz/library/eyewitness/) - In 1932, Geoffrey Cox travelled to Britain to take up a Rhodes Scholarship. First as a student, then as a journalist, Cox became an eyewitness to events which have since become history
- [The Cost of Living](https://oup.nz/library/the-cost-of-living/) - ‘A compelling narrative account of each stage of the story ... This is high-quality historical journalism.’—Geoff Bertram ‘A timely reminder of the merits of understanding the past in its own terms.’—Malcolm McKinnon How did organised labour, once a major force in national life, lose its position of strength and influence? The Cost of Living is an authoritative account
- [Incident Report](https://oup.nz/library/incident-report/) - Incident Report is a stunning new poetry collection from Elizabeth Morton, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most inventive and accomplished poets. A visceral and exhilarating read, Incident Report is a finely wrought chronicle of emergency and rescue, and of love and miracles. Morton wields language with power and precision. Her musically adroit lines carry the
- [This Moment, Every Moment](https://oup.nz/library/this-moment-every-moment/) - This Moment, Every Moment is a new and updated edition of the collected poems of internationally renowned Aotearoa New Zealand poet Ruth Dallas.
- [Ruth Dallas](https://oup.nz/library/ruth-dallas/) - Ruth Dallas (1919–2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most, respected and influential literary voices.
- [Landfall Tauraka 251](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-tauraka-251/) - Landfall Tauraka is the country’s longest-running literary and arts journal and sits at the heart of literature in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bringing together voices and perspectives from established practitioners and emerging talents, Landfall Tauraka offers a vital snapshot of innovation and creativity in Aotearoa today. Alongside the finest new writing, art and reviews from across
- [Overland to the Island](https://oup.nz/library/overland-to-the-island/) - Overland to the Island tells the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod’s 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
- [A Day Like No Other](https://oup.nz/library/a-day-like-no-other/) - A Day Like No Other gathers poems from across award-winning poet James Norcliffe’s remarkable career, spanning nearly four decades.
- [Pepeha Portal](https://oup.nz/library/pepeha-portal/) - shining like light on water a path for the next generation From ‘Intonation’ Pepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory, place and connection. Born and raised in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Pepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory, place and belonging.
- [Invisible Intelligence](https://oup.nz/library/invisible-intelligence/) - Welby Ings considers how schools measure intelligence and shows how narrow definitions of literacy and numeracy can lead to students being described as ‘behind’
- [The Gum Trees of Kerikeri](https://oup.nz/library/the-gum-trees-of-kerikeri/) - Winner of the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner is a beautifully crafted and quietly compelling tour de force. Grounded in the natural world and the community of the land the speaker lives on – an area in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand that was once
- [Pastoral Care](https://oup.nz/library/pastoral-care/) - In Pastoral Care, John Prins gives us nine clear-eyed, witty and beautifully written stories centred on daily life in twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand.
- [Hauaga](https://oup.nz/library/hauaga/) - John Pule is one of the most significant artists living and working in New Zealand today. From the mid-1990s his powerful, enigmatic and personal paintings attracted great interest, and his work came to be widely shown.
- [The Politics of Indigeneity](https://oup.nz/library/the-politics-of-indigeneity/) - The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peoples around a commonality of concerns, needs and ambitions.
- [Rushing for Gold](https://oup.nz/library/rushing-for-gold/) - Rushing for Gold is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand.
- [Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin](https://oup.nz/library/spiders-of-new-zealand-and-their-worldwide-kin/) - Spiders colonised the Earth long before Gondwanaland began to drift into separate continents. New Zealand spiders have links with spiders worldwide.
- [Mad Diva](https://oup.nz/library/mad-diva/) - Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a whirl of ideas, experiences and imagery; a high-wire performance from an extraordinary emerging talent.
- [Hiding Places](https://oup.nz/library/hiding-places/) - Hiding Places is a compelling and beautifully written meditation on early motherhood and creativity. Told through a series of fragments that range from raw and troubled to delightful and hilarious.
- [Acknowledge No Frontier](https://oup.nz/library/acknowledge-no-frontier/) - While other British settler societies – Australia, Canada, the US and South Africa – have states or provinces, New Zealand is a unitary state.
- [Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/promoting-health-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/) - The health of the planet – and all of us who live on it – is under dire threat from factors such as climate change, obesity and new infectious diseases.
- [Snark](https://oup.nz/library/snark/) - Winner of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Margaret Mahy Book of the Year.
- [Landfall Tauraka 250](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-tauraka-250/) - Aotearoa New Zealand’s iconic and longest-running arts and literary journal honours its milestone 250th issue with a new name.
- [From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen](https://oup.nz/library/from-kai-to-kiwi-kitchen/) - In the past two decades, cuisine and culinary history have attracted increasing attention, with both popular & academic books reflecting the growth of interest.
- [The Pavlova Story](https://oup.nz/library/the-pavlova-story/) - While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova, the real story of the ballerina's visit to the Antipodes and the emergence of three different pavlovas was neglected.
- [Power to Win](https://oup.nz/library/power-to-win/) - Lyndy McIntyre’s Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- [What Lies Beneath](https://oup.nz/library/what-lies-beneath/) - Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again.
- [Ngā Kete Mātauranga](https://oup.nz/library/nga-kete-matauranga/) - Ngā Kete Mātauranga - In this beautiful & transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work.
- [We Will Not Cease](https://oup.nz/library/we-will-not-cease/) - We Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I.
- [Casting Off](https://oup.nz/library/casting-off/) - At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys' absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and ...
- [Walking to Jutland Street](https://oup.nz/library/walking-to-jutland-street/) - Walking to Jutland Street is the debut poetry collection of Michael Steven, an Auckland poet with strong connections to Dunedin.
- [The Lifers](https://oup.nz/library/the-lifers/) - Steven's writing neither patronises nor romanticises in its intricate depictions of small worlds of violence, despair, love and struggle.
- [Landfall 249](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-249/) - Landfall showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews and essays.
- [Strong Words 4](https://oup.nz/library/strong-words-4/) - Strong Words 4 continues the tradition of showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand’s best contemporary essays, presenting a diverse collection of thought-provoking works
- [Wednesday’s Children](https://oup.nz/library/wednesdays-children/) - Wednesday’s Children returns to print in this beautifully designed edition, celebrating the enduring work of Robin Hyde.
- [Nor the Years Condemn](https://oup.nz/library/nor-the-years-condemn/) - This beautifully presented new edition of Nor the Years Condemn, first published in 1938, brings Robin Hyde’s important novel back into print.
- [A Wind Harp](https://oup.nz/library/a-wind-harp/) - When leading New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen reads her work audiences are captivated not only by her accessible and wide ranging poems, but also by the drama and musicality of her performance.
- [Edwin’s Egg and Other Poetic Novellas](https://oup.nz/library/edwins-egg-and-other-poetic-novellas/) - Cilla McQueen was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2009–11. One of her writing projects during her time as laureate was Serial, which she described as 'exploring a space between prose and poetry'.
- [Markings](https://oup.nz/library/markings/) - In this fine collection of poems and drawings Cilla McQueen traces the lives and voyages of her ancestors, and the living history of her husband's people.
- [Soundings](https://oup.nz/library/soundings/) - Soundings is another landmark in the development of an important and widely read New Zealand poet. This collection continues and develops the themes of homeland and loss, colonisation and displacement that have been constantly important to McQueen.
- [The Radio Room](https://oup.nz/library/the-radio-room/) - In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors
- [Axis](https://oup.nz/library/axis/) - Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's major poets. Axis is a selection of her poems from the past twenty years, drawn from five volumes of her published work
- [In a Slant Light](https://oup.nz/library/in-a-slant-light/) - In this absorbing poetic memoir of her early life, Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand's major women poets, leads us over the stepping stones of childhood memory.
- [Books of Mana](https://oup.nz/library/books-of-mana/) - Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- [Fire-Penny](https://oup.nz/library/fire-penny/) - Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St Kilda island – ancestral home of the McQueens – open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen
- [Poeta](https://oup.nz/library/poeta/) - Poeta: selected and new poems brings together a definitive selection of Cilla McQueen's poetry spanning five decades,
- [The Yield](https://oup.nz/library/the-yield/) - The Yield is the vivid and lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. These poems are sensorially alive, deeply attentive to language, the body, and the world around us.
- [The Twisted Chain](https://oup.nz/library/the-twisted-chain/) - ‘Not knowing if your dad will live through the night is not something that any young son or daughter should ever have to endure. I experienced this nightmare more times than I care to remember.’
- [Unfortunate Folk](https://oup.nz/library/unfortunate-folk/) - From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, 'Unfortunate Folk': Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand.
- [Past Caring?](https://oup.nz/library/past-caring/) - Are women past caring? Care is essential to social relationships and individual well-being. It is woven into New Zealand's key social institutions, such as the family,
- [A Gift of Stories](https://oup.nz/library/a-gift-of-stories/) - The life stories in this book are by people who, at some point in their lives, have been diagnosed with a mental illness which they have learned to deal with.
- [Anatomy of a Medical School](https://oup.nz/library/anatomy-of-a-medical-school/) - What makes a medical school? Certainly not bricks and mortar, essential though they be. People and ever more people, yes.
- [Pacific Identities and Well-being](https://oup.nz/library/pacific-identities-and-well-being/) - This anthology addresses the mental health and therapeutic needs of Polynesian and Melanesian people and the scarcity of resources for those working with them.
- [Reconstructing Faces](https://oup.nz/library/reconstructing-faces/) - The two world wars played an important role in the evolution of plastic and maxillofacial surgery in the first half of the 20th century.
- [Being a Doctor](https://oup.nz/library/being-a-doctor/) - As an antidote, this book explores principles and assumptions of modern medicine seldom taught in medical school.
- [The Case of the Missing Body](https://oup.nz/library/the-case-of-the-missing-body/) - The Case of the Missing Body is the true and unusual story of Lily, who has no sense of her body. She has struggled with the effects of this her whole life.
- [Doctors in Denial](https://oup.nz/library/doctors-in-denial/) - When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS)
- [Meantime](https://oup.nz/library/meantime/) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand uncrossable kilometres lay between poet Majella Cullinane in Aotearoa New Zealand and her mother in Ireland.
- [Flu Hunter](https://oup.nz/library/flu-hunter/) - When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality.
- [New Zealand Nurses](https://oup.nz/library/new-zealand-nurses/) - New Zealand Nurses draws on a wealth of nurses' personal stories to identify the values, traditions, community & folklore of the nursing culture from 1880-1950.
- [Touch Screen](https://oup.nz/library/touch-screen/) - In this absorbing collection, Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh.
- [The Midnight Plane](https://oup.nz/library/the-midnight-plane/) - In The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished writers, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry.
- [Preachers, Pastors, Prophets](https://oup.nz/library/preachers-pastors-prophets/) - Preachers, Pastors, Prophets draws on a rich collection of archival material & oral interviews to tell the story of the Dominican friars of Aotearoa New Zealand
- [The Intimacy Bus](https://oup.nz/library/the-intimacy-bus/) - Poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life’s heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief, ageing, loneliness, gender, sexual identity, power and inequality.
- [Bob Crowder](https://oup.nz/library/bob-crowder-a-new-zealand-organics-pioneer/) - Growing up in wartime Britain, the peaceful pursuit of gardening was young Bob’s refuge. He later became an innovative horticulturalist and early champion of regenerative agriculture.
- [Remembering and Becoming](https://oup.nz/library/remembering-and-becoming/) - Remembering and Becoming investigates how personal narratives can deepen our understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand’s history.
- [Heart Stood Still](https://oup.nz/library/heart-stood-still/) - In early 2020 Miriam Sharland was nearing the end of a 17-year adventure in Aotearoa New Zealand. A desire to return to family & the familiar was pulling her back to her homeland, England.
- [Katherine Mansfield's Europe](https://oup.nz/library/katherine-mansfields-europe/) - Beautifully written and illustrated, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story.
- [Kitchens](https://oup.nz/library/kitchens/) - This engrossing history of the domestic kitchen covers ten decades that saw our culinary traditions accommodate extraordinary changes in technology and the irresistible process of globalisation.
- [Niue 1774–1974](https://oup.nz/library/niue-1774-1974/) - Tiny Niue lies alone in the south Pacific, a single island with formidable cliffs rising from the deep ocean. Far from the main shipping routes and with a daunting reputation, 'Savage Island' did not naturally invite visitors.
- [To Catch the Spirit](https://oup.nz/library/to-catch-the-spirit/) - Alexander Aitken was a Dunedin mathematician whose contributions to algebra, numerical analysis & statistics brought him the glittering prizes of his profession
- [The Universal Dance](https://oup.nz/library/the-universal-dance/) - It is not widely known that Charles Brasch, poet and editor, was also a prose writer and lecturer of considerable critical acumen and wide-ranging interest. As a poet responding poetically to other poets, artists and thinkers, Brasch was that rare being, an idealist who bore witness to his ideals without faltering.
- [The Liverworts of New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/the-liverworts-of-new-zealand/) - This is the first comprehensive book on the liverworts of New Zealand. Nearly 200 species are dealt with in detail, with notes on habitat and distribution.
- [Publicans and Sinners](https://oup.nz/library/publicans-and-sinners/) - Publicans and Sinners is a compact but comprehensive study of the role, during the Roman Republic, of the publicani who may be variously described as capitalists, contractors, revenue collectors, entrepreneurs, or simply 'big business'.
- [The Face of Nature](https://oup.nz/library/the-face-of-nature/) - Bounded by the wild waves of the Pacific on the east, and the more sheltered harbour on the west, the Otago Peninsula is a remarkable landscape.
- [Responsibility and Restoration](https://oup.nz/library/responsibility-and-restoration/) - Responsibility and Restoration: The course of the Book of Ezekiel is author M E Andrew's exploration of the Book of Ezekiel. Here, M E Andrew contributes to the reading and understanding of the Book of Ezekiel in sequence, showing that individual sections and themes of the book should not be considered alone but as different parts
- [Painting Myself In](https://oup.nz/library/painting-myself-in/) - Expressing oneself through creativity can be an immensely challenging and satisfying experience. Nina Mariette, a survivor of childhood abuse, uses painting to make sense of her past, and tells her story with pictures and words in this book. Some of the pictures are raw, primitive and gut-wrenching, immediately provoking a response. Others are more subtle,
- [Nothing for it but to Sing](https://oup.nz/library/nothing-for-it-but-to-sing/) - Michael Harlow's poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire.
- [Living Together](https://oup.nz/library/living-together/) - How do we develop inclusive, engaged communities? In this book experts in community planning review some of the challenges, strategies and solutions.
- [Landfall 248](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-248/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year.
- [Landfall 247](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-247/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year.
- [Landfall 246](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-246/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year,
- [Landfall 245](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-245/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year,
- [Landfall 244](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-244/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year,
- [Landfall 242](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-242/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year.
- [Landfall 226](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-226/) - Featuring artwork by painter Liz Maw, sculptor Lonnie Hutchinson, and printmaker Marian Maguire, 'Heaven and Hell' is the theme for Landfall 226.
- [Janet Frame](https://oup.nz/library/janet-frame/) - A must for serious readers – the first book-length review of Janet Frame's writing.
- [Introduction to Ophthalmology](https://oup.nz/library/introduction-to-ophthalmology/) - A medical student or non-ophthalmologist seeking a brief but coherent discussion of ophthalmology can do no better than Parr's Introduction to Ophthalmology.
- [How to Study Literature in English](https://oup.nz/library/how-to-study-literature-in-english/) - This text has been written for the student advancing into the study of literature at university, and is designed to give basic information on the concepts and methods of literary criticism.
- [Dunedin](https://oup.nz/library/dunedin/) - Built on mid-Victorian gold and located in a wonderful natural environment, Dunedin is a gracious old lady with a spirit of adventure.
- [Dental Writing](https://oup.nz/library/dental-writing/) - F W Craddock provides a practical guide for dentists who wish to improve their written skills. This lucid book provides a relaxed and refreshing treatment of the complexities and simplicities of expository writing. Despite its unusual title, it will be found invaluable by all technical and professional writers regardless of their subjects or interests. 'Professor
- [Curved Horizon](https://oup.nz/library/curved-horizon/) - At a time when Brasch, Fairburn & Glover spoke bitterly of the lack of support given to NZ artists, how did a single woman from Southland live & work as a writer
- [Coping with 'Morning' Sickness](https://oup.nz/library/coping-with-morning-sickness/) - 'Morning' sickness can occur at any time of the day or night and recur for months. For many women it is not the small nuisance of early pregnancy that society in general perceives it to be.
- [Communication and Context](https://oup.nz/library/communication-and-context/) - Examines the social and cultural factors which affect language use and understanding, and provides tools for thinking about language use and language behaviour.
- [Charles Meryon](https://oup.nz/library/charles-meryon/) - A bibliography of Charles Méryon, a French printmaker and artist whose work consists largely of etches, as he suffered from colour blindness. He is generally considered the most significant etcher of 19th century France and spent some time in New Zealand.
- [Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/asians-and-the-new-multiculturalism-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/) - Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand presents thought-provoking new research on New Zealand's fastest-growing demographic – the geographically, nationally and historically diverse Asian communities.
- [A Name and Word Index to Nga Mahi a Nga Tupuna](https://oup.nz/library/a-name-and-word-index-to-nga-mahi-a-nga-tupuna/) - The University of Otago Press Te Whenua Series brings together works by and about people for whom the countries of the Pacific region are their home.
- [When I Reach for Your Pulse](https://oup.nz/library/when-i-reach-for-your-pulse/) - In this electrifying debut, Rushi Vyas untangles slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide.
- [Tung](https://oup.nz/library/tung/) - Earth-centred and life-affirming, these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis.
- [Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Māori](https://oup.nz/library/traditional-lifeways-of-the-southern-maori/) - Journalist James Herries Beattie recorded southern Māori history for almost fifty years. Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Māori is his most important work
- [The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in her Sleep](https://oup.nz/library/the-wife-who-spoke-japanese-in-her-sleep/) - Beaches, food, magic ... ten quirky and enjoyable stories from Wellington writer Vivienne Plumb.
- [The Ones Who Keep Quiet](https://oup.nz/library/the-ones-who-keep-quiet/) - The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian banker retrieving his top hat from the gutter.
- [Strong Words 3](https://oup.nz/library/strong-words-3/) - Strong Words 3 showcases the best of the best of Aotearoa New Zealand's contemporary essays from 2021 and 2022 from entries into the Landfall Essay Competition.
- [Robert Lord Diaries](https://oup.nz/library/robert-lord-diaries/) - Robert Lord is an important figure in the history of literature and theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand. He wrote incisive and often satiric radio and stage plays
- [Respirator](https://oup.nz/library/respirator/) - Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the nation's poet-at-large during his time as Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019–22).
- [Pretty Ugly](https://oup.nz/library/pretty-ugly/) - In Pretty Ugly, Kirsty Gunn reminds us that ambiguity and complication are elemental forces in a human life, and grist to the storyteller’s mill.
- [O me voy o te vas / One of us must go](https://oup.nz/library/o-me-voy-o-te-vas-one-of-us-must-go/) - 'A wonderfully dry, funny, yet wistful and poignant collection of poetry about all the gaps, misunderstandings, longings, habits and mysteries in a long marriage.'
- [Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit](https://oup.nz/library/liar-liar-lick-spit/) - Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the new collection by Ōtepoti poet and writer Emma Neale, is fascinated by our doubleness.
- [Letter to 'Oumuamua](https://oup.nz/library/letter-to-oumuamua/) - Norcliffe applies a cool, clear eye to human life on Earth. Our foibles and absurdities are laid bare, but so too is the human capacity for love, desire, sorrow and regret.
- [Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology](https://oup.nz/library/koe-an-aotearoa-ecopoetry-anthology/) - Koe explores human connections with nature through a selection of over 100 poems composed in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present day.
- [History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants](https://oup.nz/library/history-of-new-zealand-and-its-inhabitants/) - History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants is the English language translation of a lively, opinionated book by Dom Felice Vaggioli, an Italian monk.
- [Histories of Hate](https://oup.nz/library/histories-of-hate/) - Explores intolerance and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the precursors of the radical right during British settlement in the late nineteenth century to today's QAnon conspiracists and keyboard warriors.
- [Forms of Freedom](https://oup.nz/library/forms-of-freedom/) - In Forms of Freedom, Dougal McNeill explores how the creative literary imagination can influence progressive social change in the real world.
- [Echoes from Hawaiki](https://oup.nz/library/echoes-from-hawaiki/) - Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical traditions and instrument-playing techniques.
- [Between Friends](https://oup.nz/library/between-friends/) - Meet Sally. The daughter of a small town dentist, she's artistic ... she and best friend Chrissie are working on their novels.
- [Archaeology of the Solomon Islands](https://oup.nz/library/archaeology-of-the-solomon-islands/) - Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years' research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard.
- [Always Going Home](https://oup.nz/library/always-going-home/) - The compelling personal story of Frances Edmond's relationship with her 'beloved, complicated, difficult' mother, the award-winning poet Lauris Edmond.
- [Deep Colour](https://oup.nz/library/deep-colour/) - Deep Colour is fiercely sensory and meticulously crafted; these poems respond with graceful precision to the immediate physical world, and meditate on time, beauty and the nature of being.
- [Blue Hour](https://oup.nz/library/blue-hour/) - Set in the green spaces and urban grit of contemporary Te Whanganui-a-Tara, this debut collection from poet Jo McNeice unfolds like a Gothic fairytale.
- [At the Point of Seeing](https://oup.nz/library/at-the-point-of-seeing/) - The extraordinary debut collection from Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching's poems bestow a unique attention upon the world.
- [Amongst Friends](https://oup.nz/library/amongst-friends/) - This book provides a rare contemplation of the bonds between the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
- [Aftermaths](https://oup.nz/library/aftermaths/) - Aftermaths explores the life-changing intergenerational effects of colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
- [Witi Ihimaera](https://oup.nz/library/witi-ihimaera/) - Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. Author of seven volumes of fiction, he has also written essays, editorials, and an opera, Waituhi.
- [The Duel on the Creek](https://oup.nz/library/the-duel-on-the-creek/) - 'Miss Cornelia was religious. To her, mirth was an offence, and laughter a sacrilegious thing. Also she believed in the divine use of the rod.
- [On the Grapevine](https://oup.nz/library/on-the-grapevine/) - A novel of the nineties, On the Grapevine is about being grown-up and not getting it right all of the time.
- [Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament](https://oup.nz/library/ministers-and-members-in-the-new-zealand-parliament/) - An essential reference for voters or anyone working in politics, journalism, research or education, this book records all the ministers and members of the New Zealand Parliament since 1911.
- [Lands for the People?](https://oup.nz/library/lands-for-the-people/) - An enlightening political biography of the Minister of Lands and Agriculture in the 1890s. John McKenzie was the legislator who 'burst up' the great pastoral estates and assisted the establishment of the small family farm in New Zealand.
- [Remember Me](https://oup.nz/library/remember-me/) - A book of short stories from popular novelist Linda Burgess: 'As a writer I'm interested in turning points, and short stories lend themselves to the exploration of these.
- [Leaving for Townsville](https://oup.nz/library/leaving-for-townsville/) - This is a novel in which you will meet some extraordinary characters – the Moxon sisters, Max Bloody Tapper – and find at least three layers of story. Outwardly, it's all quite simple – Rick has a bit of a mid-life crisis and Hazel carries on coping
- [Four Generations from Maoridom](https://oup.nz/library/four-generations-from-maoridom/) - Fishing tales abound in this book, as Syd Cormack was a commercial fisherman in Moeraki and Kaikoura for much of his adult life. Even when he moved to Southland to farm, he continued fishing.
- [In Stormy Seas](https://oup.nz/library/in-stormy-seas/) - A detailed look at the New Zealand economy in the twentieth century, and in particular its course since World War II.
- [A Foucault Primer](https://oup.nz/library/a-foucault-primer/) - In such seminal works as Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, the late philosopher Michel Foucault explored what our politics, our sexuality, our societal conventions, and our changing notions of truth told us about ourselves.
- [The Story of a New Zealand Writer](https://oup.nz/library/the-story-of-a-new-zealand-writer/) - Jane Mander grew up in the kauri milling settlements of the north and her desire to depict life in those places produced a classic novel, The Story of a New Zealand River
- [The Power of Place](https://oup.nz/library/the-power-of-place/) - The flowering of New Zealand children's fiction in the 1980s was exciting and unprecedented, culminating in international acclaim for the work of Margaret Mahy, Tessa Duder and others.
- [Psychology and Family Law](https://oup.nz/library/psychology-and-family-law/) - The increased recognition of children's rights and adult responsibilities to children has been a major development of the past twenty years.
- [Folding Back the Shadows](https://oup.nz/library/folding-back-the-shadows/) - From anorexia to healing, from psychotropic drugs to psychotherapy, this book brings together a wide range of writings on different aspects of women's mental health. Folding Back the Shadows: A Perspective on Women's Mental Health is a collection of current writings
- [Sustainable House](https://oup.nz/library/sustainable-house/) - Sydney's first self-sufficient house offers a blueprint for future urban living. The house gets energy from the sun, water from the rain, and takes care of its waste disposal needs.
- [The Welcome of Strangers](https://oup.nz/library/the-welcome-of-strangers-2/) - Two hundred years ago Māori in the south of New Zealand had a lifestyle quite distinct from that of their northern cousins, and different experiences of contact with Europeans.
- [Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury, New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/stained-glass-windows-of-canterbury-new-zealand/) - Stained glass is a public art form of immense visual appeal. The region of Canterbury contains a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century windows of international significance, including works by Arts and Crafts Movement artists.
- [She Dared to Speak](https://oup.nz/library/she-dared-to-speak/) - This is the story of a spirited and courageous woman who was driven by a concern for the welfare of ordinary people. It has a liveliness and immediacy which would be difficult for an outsider to achieve.
- [Cook's Sites](https://oup.nz/library/cooks-sites/) - In 1773, Captain James Cook visited Dusky Sound in the far south of New Zealand. The voyage artist, William Hodges, produced remarkable paintings of the spectacular antipodean environment and of the Māori people who occupied it.
- [A Theatre in the House](https://oup.nz/library/a-theatre-in-the-house/) - For most of the 1960s, Dunedin's Globe Theatre was the most important thing happening in serious New Zealand theatre.
- [Russian Dolls](https://oup.nz/library/russian-dolls/) - This is a novel about a woman of today uncovering the tale of her maiden great aunt and a soldier in World War I.
- [Her Side of the Story](https://oup.nz/library/her-side-of-the-story/) - This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940.
- [Wild Central](https://oup.nz/library/wild-central-2/) - For the people who know it, 'Central' Otago conjures up images of a diverse landscape – snow-clad peaks, rocky outcrops in a parched terrain, the mighty Clutha River carving its way through the land to the sea, and the wide, windswept Maniototo.
- [Studying New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/studying-new-zealand-2/) - Who made Lane's Emulsion? Where should we look to find out? No matter how obscure your question, if it's about a New Zealand topic, there's a new book to help you find the answers.
- [Advocating for Children](https://oup.nz/library/advocating-for-children/) - Advocates for children gathered at a major international conference in New Zealand in 1999. This book presents a selection of papers from the conference, covering many vital issues.
- [A Distant Shore](https://oup.nz/library/a-distant-shore/) - This book about New Zealand's Irish heritage offers the view that colonial New Zealand was more multicultural than we have been led to believe.
- [The Black Horse and Other Stories](https://oup.nz/library/the-black-horse-and-other-stories/) - Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye for detail and for the ironies of life.
- [Bitter Sweet](https://oup.nz/library/bitter-sweet/) - The South Pacific has long represented the possibilities of a pure space, outside the ambivalences of a 'developed' world.
- [The Writer at Work](https://oup.nz/library/the-writer-at-work/) - Into this volume C.K. Stead gathers a selection of his essays from the past decade, mixing literary criticism with autobiography. He reviews the work of other writers, meditates on the teaching of literature, revisits some controversies and explores literary history.
- [Haunt](https://oup.nz/library/haunt/) - Once upon a time there was a small settlement, north of Dunedin, where a huge psychiatric hospital sprawled on the hillside and a patchwork of farmland sloped down to the cliffs that edged the sea.
- [An Advanced Chinese Reader](https://oup.nz/library/an-advanced-chinese-reader/) - A one-year reading course in Chinese language, based on 22 texts and associated exercises. This will serve as a textbook for advanced-level learners.
- [Francis Shurrock](https://oup.nz/library/francis-shurrock/) - This book presents a sketch of the life and work of this 'sculptor's sculptor' (1887–1977) who as a teacher and a practitioner inspired several generations of New Zealand artists but has been neglected by scholars.
- [The Land Girls](https://oup.nz/library/the-land-girls/) - This book tells the story of New Zealand's land girls during the Second World War. Drawing on the oral histories of 130 women and the written interviews of 90 others
- [Sālote](https://oup.nz/library/salote/) - Queen Sālote ascended the throne of Tonga in 1918, at the age of 18, to lead this Pacific nation through the hazards of the 20th century until her death in 1965
- [Common Ground?](https://oup.nz/library/common-ground-2/) - New Zealand has a unique heritage in its historic buildings and sites that is increasingly valued as we become a mature nation.
- [God & Government](https://oup.nz/library/god-government/) - New Zealand is often portrayed as a secular society, but look at the depth of feeling stirred up in recent years by the 'Virgin in a Condom' controversy, or the Hikoi of Hope.
- [A Deserter's Adventures](https://oup.nz/library/a-deserters-adventures/) - Dom Felice Vaggioli wrote this autobiography between 1909 and 1911, after the publication in Italy of his History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants.
- [Body Trade](https://oup.nz/library/body-trade/) - A compelling collection of essays on the 'traffic' in human bodies in the Pacific from the eighteenth century until today.
- [British Capital, Antipodean Labour](https://oup.nz/library/british-capital-antipodean-labour/) - This book looks at the history of the New Zealand waterfront from early in the twentieth century, and challenges widely-held views.
- [Touchy Subject](https://oup.nz/library/touchy-subject/) - An interesting and disturbing cultural shift is at work in the relationship between children and their teachers. 'Teachers touching children' has become the site of a new social taboo, one about which there is much confusion and anxiety amongst teachers, as well as parents and children.
- [Only One Angel](https://oup.nz/library/only-one-angel/) - Jan Kemp is a traveller. In this volume she brings together widely disparate experiences – intellectual, artistic, spiritual, sensual – with clarity, honesty and wit.
- [Calling the Fish](https://oup.nz/library/calling-the-fish/) - At the age of fourteen, David Lyndon Brown held three national figure-skating titles and was fifth in the world championships.
- [A Fine Pen](https://oup.nz/library/a-fine-pen/) - For almost 80 years, Katherine Mansfield's stories and poems have been popular with Chinese readers and she has had a significant influence on a number of short-story writers.
- [A Snake in the Shrine](https://oup.nz/library/a-snake-in-the-shrine/) - David Geraghty taught English and travelled in Japan for three years in the late 1990s. This book is a wonderfully entertaining record of some of his experiences.
- [Wild Rivers](https://oup.nz/library/wild-rivers/) - The story of the ever-changing landscape of the area bounded by the Waitaki River in the south and the Rangitata in the north, stretching from the Alps to the east coast.
- [Arrowtown](https://oup.nz/library/arrowtown/) - A town born of gold, nestled at the foot of the mountains of western Otago, Arrowtown has retained much of its goldfields character, with historic buildings and goldmining sites.
- [The Takahe](https://oup.nz/library/the-takahe/) - Polynesian settlement of the islands of New Zealand about 1000 years ago and large-scale European colonisation in the 19th century caused massive environmental changes for indigenous animals.
- [Shifting Nature](https://oup.nz/library/shifting-nature/) - This book explores the relationship between human culture and nature through visual art. Photographs of dam construction on the Motu River or the ordered rows of a pine tree plantation demonstrate the impact of human beings on the landscape.
- [New Zealanders at Home](https://oup.nz/library/new-zealanders-at-home/) - A visual history of New Zealand domestic interiors, as seen through contemporary photographs, drawings and paintings.
- [Communities of Women](https://oup.nz/library/communities-of-women/) - The sense of belonging to a community is real but communities are also necessarily, imagined by the people who belong to them.
- [No Idle Rich](https://oup.nz/library/no-idle-rich/) - Wealth and power in a colonial society is the subject of this book. It is a detailed study of the richest settlers in southern New Zealand, where the country's earliest fortunes were made, mostly by pastoral farmers and financiers.
- [FigureWork](https://oup.nz/library/figurework/) - The importance of the nude in New Zealand art is explored in FigureWork: The Nude and Life Modelling in New Zealand Art by Sandra Chesterman.
- [The Life of Brian](https://oup.nz/library/the-life-of-brian/) - The notion of masculinity is universal but its embodiment is specific to the culture and historical moment to which it belongs.
- [Halfway to Africa](https://oup.nz/library/halfway-to-africa/) - In the language of flowers, the iris signifies 'I have a message for you'. As a symbol it was the fleur-de-lys of the royal family of France, known as the Flower of Chivalry, with a sword for its leaves and a lily for its heart.
- [Feeding the Dogs](https://oup.nz/library/feeding-the-dogs-2/) - This bumper collection of 60 poems is autobiographical and in it Cooke writes about town, landscape, family and everyday life. 'Feeding the Dogs' is one of the poems in this book.
- [Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying](https://oup.nz/library/diaspora-and-the-difficult-art-of-dying/) - Every poem in this collection offers a stepping stone or resting place on what is essentially a diasporic odyssey.
- [Southern Land, Southern People](https://oup.nz/library/southern-land-southern-people/) - This book celebrates Otago Museum's major new 'Southern Land, Southern People' gallery, opened at the end of August 2002. It offers a comprehensive insight into the character of the region
- [Shifting Centres](https://oup.nz/library/shifting-centres/) - New Zealand is an immigrant society, but little has been written about the diverse migrant experiences of women to and within New Zealand.
- [Rewarding Service](https://oup.nz/library/rewarding-service/) - Remember the days when working for the public service was for life, with the reward of superannuation at the end? Things have changed in recent years and 'super' has become one of New Zealand's most contentious social and political issues.
- [On the Left](https://oup.nz/library/on-the-left/) - Writings on the left in New Zealand have tended to follow two paths: to minimise the influence of socialism or to push a particular line of thought.
- [Oamaru](https://oup.nz/library/oamaru/) - Oamaru is a town built on nineteenth-century gold and grain booms, and the birthplace of the frozen meat. Nestling around its old port fringes is New Zealand's most intact Victorian architectural landscape.
- [Enduring Legacy](https://oup.nz/library/enduring-legacy/) - In the mid-twentieth century Charles Brasch was a major figure in New Zealand's cultural life – a poet, patron and founding editor of Landfall, the country's premier journal of letters and art.
- [Adventures in Democracy](https://oup.nz/library/adventures-in-democracy/) - This is the first comprehensive history of the vote and elections in New Zealand and was published to mark the 150th anniversary of elections in New Zealand.
- [Continuity amid Chaos](https://oup.nz/library/continuity-amid-chaos/) - Since 1989 there have been four different structures for the New Zealand health sector. The country can now claim to have the 'most restructured' of any of the world's health systems and has captured the attention of researchers and policy-makers worldwide as a result.
- [Borderland Practices](https://oup.nz/library/borderland-practices/) - Defining what is 'orthodox' and what is 'alternative' in primary health care therapies and practice is a difficult task these days.
- [The Law of Research](https://oup.nz/library/the-law-of-research/) - Responding to a growing need for legal advice for researchers, this book provides a guide to the law of research.
- [Money Makes You Crazy](https://oup.nz/library/money-makes-you-crazy/) - The Solomons are a group of islands in the west Pacific where most villages have no road access & no electricity & the modern material world has not fully arrived
- [Lily's Cupola](https://oup.nz/library/lilys-cupola/) - This gentle and imaginative novel is the story of Lily, an elderly woman reflecting on her life and family in letters to the other side of the world.
- [Ghost Net](https://oup.nz/library/ghost-net/) - Ana, a young Czech woman, is spending the southern summer in New Zealand. In the aftermath of the break-up of her marriage, she is visiting her father, whom she has not seen since he left Prague when she was a young child.
- [The Heart Sutra](https://oup.nz/library/the-heart-sutra/) - A vibrant, engrossing collection, where satisfying storytelling meets a very modern sensibility. Caren Wilton is funny and engaging. Her characters find themselves in unfamiliar landscapes: sometimes physical – a Bangkok flat, a youth hostel in Edinburgh, a Wellington massage parlour – and sometimes personal.
- [Millionaire's Shortbread](https://oup.nz/library/millionaires-shortbread/) - Millionaire's Shortbread is both book and cake. Meeting at a cafe table in downtown Wellington, sustained by their favourite treat and gathering in an illustrator along the way, the poets put together this selection of their work over three years.
- [The Prickly Pair](https://oup.nz/library/the-prickly-pair/) - The Iraq war found Australia and New Zealand in deep disagreement. It was not the first such serious strategic difference and is unlikely to be the last.
- [The Hong Kong Health Sector](https://oup.nz/library/the-hong-kong-health-sector/) - Since the 1990s, the Hong Kong public health sector has been under constant review: there has been increasing emphasis on the need for major changes in its structure and funding, and traditional Chinese medicine has received formal recognition.
- [The Heather and the Fern](https://oup.nz/library/the-heather-and-the-fern/) - One of the largest European migrant groups to New Zealand, the Scots have contributed much to its evolving society. This book brings together essays on many aspects of Scottish settlement in New Zealand, including individual stories.
- [Operation Vietnam](https://oup.nz/library/operation-vietnam/) - New Zealand has a long and honourable record of sending health service personnel to trouble spots around the world. Michael Shackleton was an energetic and determined pioneer.
- [Past Judgement](https://oup.nz/library/past-judgement/) - Appreciating New Zealand's distinctive social policy history is important in formulating future social policies. This is one of the premises in Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History, which brings together recent research on a range of social policy contexts.
- [Built for Us](https://oup.nz/library/built-for-us/) - Surrounding us in our everyday lives are public buildings we all relate to: post offices, state houses, schools, railway stations, courthouses, office buildings, police stations.
- [Building God's Own Country](https://oup.nz/library/building-gods-own-country/) - As the debate surrounding the Civil Unions Act illustrated, issues about marriage and sexuality have significant religious dimensions.
- [Marilynn Webb](https://oup.nz/library/marilynn-webb/) - An outstanding artist and art educator, Marilynn Webb gained international stature as a print-maker early in her career. Working as an art adviser in Northland and Auckland she created memorable images that were instantly recognisable as coming from her hand.
- [Wellington](https://oup.nz/library/wellington/) - Wellington is a great place for a holiday, whether for a weekend or two weeks. The city has energy, as the home of many of New Zealand's cultural institutions, and a wonderful location on high hills around a dramatic harbour.
- [Under Flagstaff](https://oup.nz/library/under-flagstaff/) - Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry brings together for the first time a selection from the extraordinarily rich resource of poems, published and unpublished, written about the city and its environs.
- [Treaty-Based Guidelines and Protocols for Tertiary Education Institutions](https://oup.nz/library/treaty-based-guidelines-and-protocols-for-tertiary-education-institutions/) - Treaty-Based Guidelines and Protocols for Tertiary Education Institutions seeks to clarify what exactly a Treaty relationship means for tertiary institutions.
- [The Politics and Government of New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/the-politics-and-government-of-new-zealand/) - New Zealand's government and politics are experiencing rapid change as core social values are overturned and new institutions and processes developed to cope with stresses and strains in the political system.
- [The Natural History of Southern New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/the-natural-history-of-southern-new-zealand/) - Southern New Zealand is a region of contrasting landscapes and climates, of mountains, lakes, ocean, rivers and fiords, of breathtakingly beautiful scenery and sometimes-strange wildlife.
- [Restoring Kapiti](https://oup.nz/library/restoring-kapiti/) - Modern Kapiti Island is best known as a sanctuary for wildlife. It is one of New Zealand's longest and most exciting conservation stories, beginning in 1897.
- [Rats and Revolutionaries](https://oup.nz/library/rats-and-revolutionaries/) - Australia and New Zealand are closely connected by both geography and history. One cultural quality they share is a fixation on what lies to the north, and a 'reciprocal amnesia' about their near neighbours. Few historians in either country have examined the shared history.
- [Queenstown](https://oup.nz/library/queenstown/) - Queenstown is unlike anywhere else in New Zealand. It is the country's tourism mecca, for lots of good reasons: mountains, rivers, lakes, climate, snow sports, tramping, fishing, bungy jumping, whitewater-rafting – the list goes on and on.
- [Lenin's Legacy Down Under](https://oup.nz/library/lenins-legacy-down-under/) - Although described by Lenin as 'the country at the end of the world', like other western countries New Zealand was a participant in the defining ideological conflict of the twentieth century and there are stories to be told as a result.
- [Class, Gender and the Vote](https://oup.nz/library/class-gender-and-the-vote/) - With the rise of the study of social history in the second half of the twentieth century, the focus of many historians shifted from politics, high culture and foreign policy to new areas, including health, demographics, families, crime, women and immigration.
- [Books and Boots](https://oup.nz/library/books-and-boots/) - A.H. Reed's enduring contribution to his adopted homeland was as a publisher, writer and benefactor, but he is also fondly remembered by many as a long-distance walker.
- [Edward Eyre](https://oup.nz/library/edward-eyre/) - Edward Eyre, a mid 19th-century explorer, colonial administrator & colonial governor, is remembered in Australia as the enlightened defender of Aboriginal rights
- [Travels in Oceania](https://oup.nz/library/travels-in-oceania/) - First published in Paris as Journal d'un balenier, this translation focuses on Dr Thiercelin's travels and does not include chapters on whaling operations.
- [Decolonizing Methodologies](https://oup.nz/library/decolonizing-methodologies-2/) - This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research – specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth'.
- [e-Learning Communities](https://oup.nz/library/e-learning-communities/) - In western societies, the growth in use of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools and classrooms – particularly in internet connectivity – has been rapid.
- [e-Learning](https://oup.nz/library/e-learning/) - This book is for teachers working with the internet in education. It is useful for professional development and for curriculum and IT planning.
- [Tsugaru](https://oup.nz/library/tsugaru/) - Tsugaru is located in the northwest corner of Japan's main island, Honshu. With a rugged landscape and challenging weather, it was bypassed by Japan's industrial development after World War II.
- [Hiapo](https://oup.nz/library/hiapo/) - 'Hiapo' is the word for barkcloth or tapa in the language of Niue. The aim of this book 'is to reveal the power of a remarkable art.
- [Tackling Rugby Myths](https://oup.nz/library/tackling-rugby-myths/) - The All Blacks' 'failure' to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup led many devotees to question old certainties and the current direction of the 'national game' in the age of professionalism.
- [Southern Seas](https://oup.nz/library/southern-seas/) - New Zealand sits in a very watery part of the world. The Pacific stretches out to the north and east, while to the south is continuous ocean.
- [More than Law and Order](https://oup.nz/library/more-than-law-and-order/) - Immediately after the Second World War, the New Zealand Police were in a sorry state: short on resources, antiquated in their systems and with too many elderly and infirm staff.
- [Landscape/Community](https://oup.nz/library/landscape-community/) - New Zealanders have a strong affinity with the land and firm connections are drawn between the land and cultural identity in the economy, in politics and in art
- [Class and Occupation](https://oup.nz/library/class-and-occupation/) - During the nineteenth century, men in leading industrialised societies came to be characterised by their occupations – miner, servant, farmer, doctor.
- [Disputed Histories](https://oup.nz/library/disputed-histories/) - In this volume, leading historians reflect on writing about New Zealand's past. They also test how that past is investigated and framed.
- [Colonial Discourses](https://oup.nz/library/colonial-discourses/) - In 1855, most Māori lived in a tribal setting, as they expected, exercising the chiefly rights guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi.
- [A Religious Atheist?](https://oup.nz/library/a-religious-atheist/) - During his lifetime, New Zealand thinker and author Lloyd Geering has published numerous thought-provoking books on the nature of religious belief.
- [Amassing Treasures for All Times](https://oup.nz/library/amassing-treasures-for-all-times/) - Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century.
- [Gothic NZ](https://oup.nz/library/gothic-nz/) - Contemporary creative writers, intellectuals, photographers, painters and other artists have all contributed to this volume exploring the idea of 'gothic' in New Zealand culture.
- [Defence of Madrid](https://oup.nz/library/defence-of-madrid/) - Goodies & baddies take some sorting out in this tale of the siege of Madrid by Franco's right-wing forces supported by the Nazis & the fascist regime of Mussolini
- [Dangerous Enthusiasms](https://oup.nz/library/dangerous-enthusiasms/) - Information and the technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis are a core concern of modern government, making e-government fundamental to the ongoing 'reinvention' of public administration.
- [The Joy of a Ming Vase](https://oup.nz/library/the-joy-of-a-ming-vase/) - As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance'.
- [Malaysian Stopover](https://oup.nz/library/malaysian-stopover/) - Developed in collaboration with Malaysian educators, the material offers a window on life in their country, with a child focus, as well as accurate and up-to-date information.
- [Living Space](https://oup.nz/library/living-space/) - This book was one of the first to explore the concept of sustainability and its application to New Zealand settlements.
- [The Word Went Round](https://oup.nz/library/the-word-went-round/) - Powerful historical poems about nineteenth-century Irish emigration to New Zealand, the colonial wars, Von Tempsky and Te Kooti, moving elegies for poet/painter Joanna Margaret Paul, the artist Reiko Kunimatsu and the poet's late father, love poems, and meditations on the nature of spiritual existence in the intellectual pressure-cooker of the twenty-first century.
- [Women and Children Last](https://oup.nz/library/women-and-children-last/) - A sea voyage in the nineteenth century was not for the faint-hearted. The hazards were many and accidents commonplace.
- [Wild Fiordland](https://oup.nz/library/wild-fiordland/) - This book was shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards in 1997. It is a major work of regional natural history introducing a New Zealand World Heritage Area, Fiordland National Park.
- [The Governors](https://oup.nz/library/the-governors/) - Grey, Jervois, Fergusson, Bledisloe – their names adorn buildings, streets, entire towns, even hills and rivers. But little has been written about the occupants of Government House.
- [Sexuality Down Under](https://oup.nz/library/sexuality-down-under/) - The study of sexuality is both important & controversial. It permeates most aspects of everyday life and is both a hot topic & a taboo subject at the same time.
- [Kiwi](https://oup.nz/library/kiwi/) - Back in 1990, when Neville Peat wrote The Incredible Kiwi, the national bird was in retreat from habitat loss and the severe impact of predation.
- [Gathering for God](https://oup.nz/library/gathering-for-god/) - Combining 'the gathering of artefacts with the gathering of souls', George Brown was a key figure in the Christian, and especially the Wesleyan Methodist, history of nineteenth-century Oceania.
- [Vastly Ingenious](https://oup.nz/library/vastly-ingenious/) - Reflecting in 1769 on the manners & customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious'.
- [Ants of New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/ants-of-new-zealand/) - This book is the outcome of a lifetime's research by the author. He reveals that there are 37 established species of ants in New Zealand.
- [Castles of Gold](https://oup.nz/library/castles-of-gold/) - From the 1860s, the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island was the scene of two major goldfields, attracting hopefuls from all over the world.
- [The Gorse Blooms Pale](https://oup.nz/library/the-gorse-blooms-pale/) - Dan Davin is one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together 26 stories and a selection of poems
- [Detours](https://oup.nz/library/detours/) - Summer, 1981. A youngish Neville Peat set out from Cape Reinga on his imported 10-speed bike 'Blue', aiming to cycle through small-town New Zealand from north to south, all the way to Stewart Island.
- [Working on the Edge](https://oup.nz/library/working-on-the-edge/) - The two-drawer dishwasher, a revolution in graphic modelling of yacht races & other sports events on television, collectable dolls that are sought after worldwide
- [Employment Relations](https://oup.nz/library/employment-relations/) - This comprehensive book describes current practice in industrial relations, using case studies from Australia, the US, the UK and New Zealand.
- [Made for Weather](https://oup.nz/library/made-for-weather-2/) - Cooke's theme is one of finding 'a home in this world': hers is an authentic poetry of place, with a fidelity to experience comparable to that of other more established poets such as Bernadette Hall or Brian Turner.
- [Pickerill](https://oup.nz/library/pickerill/) - Henry Percy Pickerill was the author of three significant dental textbooks and as a founding Directer led the University of Otago Dental School from 1907-1927
- [Ka Taoka Hakena](https://oup.nz/library/ka-taoka-hakena/) - In 1907 Dr T.M. Hocken of Dunedin – historian, bibliographer and collector – undertook to gift to the University of Otago his magnificent collection of books, manuscripts, paintings and other historical documents relating to New Zealand and the Pacific.
- [Indian Settlers](https://oup.nz/library/indian-settlers/) - Indians have been present in New Zealand for over a hundred years, yet few New Zealanders would know their story. Who were these people, where did they come from, and what role have they played in the making of Aotearoa
- [How to Do Local History](https://oup.nz/library/how-to-do-local-history/) - Local historians, church and institutional historians, genealogists, thesis-writers and the people who commission them will welcome How To Do Local History.
- [A Southern Architecture](https://oup.nz/library/a-southern-architecture/) - The forms of Ted McCoy's houses can recall the early stone and mud brick buildings of the colonial era in Otago, as this region has been both his locus and his inspiration.
- [Pasifika Styles](https://oup.nz/library/pasifika-styles/) - Pasifika Styles is about a groundbreaking experiment in the display of contemporary Pacific art. The artists flung open the stores of the museum and installed their works in cases next to taonga collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver.
- [Facing the Music](https://oup.nz/library/facing-the-music/) - The Triad was founded in 1893 and ran into the late 1920s. For its first 22 years it was published in New Zealand, but in 1915 publication was transferred to Sydney where it was re-launched as an Australasian magazine.
- [Understanding Health Inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/understanding-health-inequalities-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/) - Quick-fix solutions to health inequalities are unlikely to be found in complex modern societies. Class or socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity and physical location all play their part in determining our chances of maintaining good health and securing good health care.
- [The Ship of Dreams](https://oup.nz/library/the-ship-of-dreams/) - The first critical study to investigate at length how masculine subjectivities are represented in contemporary New Zealand fiction.
- [Nurse to the Imagination](https://oup.nz/library/nurse-to-the-imagination/) - This book illustrates the contribution made to New Zealand letters by our oldest and most prestigious literary fellowship.
- [Lighted Windows](https://oup.nz/library/lighted-windows/) - Robin Hyde, journalist, poet, novelist, war correspondent (from China, in 1938) and committed political figure, was central to the movements and debates of a volatile period in New Zealand society.
- [Beyond the Breakwater](https://oup.nz/library/beyond-the-breakwater/) - Beyond the Breakwater brings together 26 outstanding short stories spanning half a century by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton.
- [The Real McKay](https://oup.nz/library/the-real-mckay/) - The Scot Alexander McKay arrived in New Zealand in 1863 at the age of 26 with just two full years of schooling. Seeking his fortune on the goldfields of the South Island
- [Tarara](https://oup.nz/library/tarara/) - At the turn of the twentieth century, Croatians were migrating from Dalmatia – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – and Māori, having become part of the British Empire, were losing much of their land.
- [Kiwitown's Port](https://oup.nz/library/kiwitowns-port/) - Located on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, Oamaru harbour struggled to become a safe haven.
- [Promised New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/promised-new-zealand/) - Promised New Zealand is the true tale of refugees who fled Nazi terror in Europe for a safe haven on the opposite side of the world – New Zealand.
- [The Summer King](https://oup.nz/library/the-summer-king/) - The Summer King tells stories, exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, sport – all feature in this 'fine and fierce first collection'
- [An Accidental Utopia?](https://oup.nz/library/an-accidental-utopia/) - An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranked fourth in the developed world for social inequality.
- [Children as Citizens?](https://oup.nz/library/children-as-citizens/) - The rights of children as citizens have become an increasing focus of international attention as the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is celebrated in 2009.
- [The Watchdog](https://oup.nz/library/the-watchdog/) - In a global economic climate troubled by the consequences of a dearth of fiscal accountability and transparency, the importance of independent auditing bodies, whether in the public or private sector, is not to be underestimated.
- [Secular Sermons](https://oup.nz/library/secular-sermons/) - Discursive, entertaining and provocative, Secular Sermons contains fourteen essays by celebrated philosopher Professor Alan Musgrave, examining the basic assumptions of science, religion and mathematics.
- [Rauru](https://oup.nz/library/rauru/) - Tene Waitere of Ngati Tarawhai (1854–1931) was the most innovative Maori carver of his time; his works reached global audiences decades before the globalisation of culture became a fashionable topic.
- [In the Paddock and On the Run](https://oup.nz/library/in-the-paddock-and-on-the-run/) - The prominence of the rural world in New Zealand's social, cultural and economic history is long established and undisputed.
- [Doing Well and Doing Good](https://oup.nz/library/doing-well-and-doing-good/) - During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries large numbers of Scots emigrated to seek their fortunes abroad.
- [Stunning debut of the repairing of a life](https://oup.nz/library/stunning-debut-of-the-repairing-of-a-life/) - SIMPLE BROKEN BEAUTIFUL is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008.
- [Mad or Bad?](https://oup.nz/library/mad-or-bad/) - Amy Bock's life has been the inspiration for plays, books, a TV programme, music, poems, an exhibition and more, but is the first comprehensive biography.
- [A Great New Zealand Prime Minister?](https://oup.nz/library/a-great-new-zealand-prime-minister/) - One of New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Ministers, his political legacy has not always been treated kindly. A reappraisal of Bill Massey is overdue.
- [Time of the Icebergs](https://oup.nz/library/time-of-the-icebergs/) - Much of Time of the Icebergs was written while David Eggleton was a Writer-in-Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland in 2009.
- [Indigenous Identity and Resistance](https://oup.nz/library/indigenous-identity-and-resistance/) - Indigenous Identity and Resistance brings together the work of Indigenous Studies scholars working in Canada, New Zealand and the Pacific.
- [Beyond the Scene](https://oup.nz/library/beyond-the-scene/) - What contribution does landscape make to our sense of identity? Images of spectacular natural features pervade the media.
- [The Far Downers](https://oup.nz/library/the-far-downers/) - At the end of the road on the southwest coast of the South Island, Jackson Bay is today a fishing village.
- [Quarantine!](https://oup.nz/library/quarantine/) - Every day, all over the world, quarantine officials screen international passengers and cargo and every week a border protection story is in the news.
- [Malaria Letters](https://oup.nz/library/malaria-letters/) - Alphonse Lavern first demonstrated the parasitic nature of malaria in 1880. Within twenty years the role of mosquitos in transmission had been worked out by Ronald Ross.
- [John Larkins Cheese Richardson](https://oup.nz/library/john-larkins-cheese-richardson/) - The definitive biography of a much-beloved and respected colonial activist. Born in Bengal in 1810 but educated in England, Richardson spent his early career in India in the military, achieving the rank of major.
- [India In New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/india-in-new-zealand/) - Indian people in 'bi-cultural' New Zealand have long been an invisible minority, rarely mentioned in our history books.
- [Fiona Pardington](https://oup.nz/library/fiona-pardington/) - European explorers of the Pacific in the 18th & early 19th centuries faced a problem – how to describe the people they met & report what they had seen and found
- [Early New Zealand Photography](https://oup.nz/library/early-new-zealand-photography/) - We are all participants in an increasingly visual culture, yet we rarely give thought to the ways that photographs shape our experience and understanding of the world and historical past.
- [I am five and I go to school](https://oup.nz/library/i-am-five-and-i-go-to-school/) - The twentieth century was a time of great change in early years education. As the century opened, the use of Froebel's kindergarten methods infiltrated more infant classrooms.
- [The Twelve Cakes of Christmas](https://oup.nz/library/the-twelve-cakes-of-christmas/) - Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least 2,000 years.
- [Dunedin Soundings](https://oup.nz/library/dunedin-soundings/) - The 'Dunedin Sound' of the 1980s is a phenomenon known throughout the world. But what does Dunedin music-making sound like in the 21st century?
- [Outspoken](https://oup.nz/library/outspoken/) - Outspoken presents the narratives of eleven people who have come out in the Anglican Church in New Zealand, including two ordained church members.
- [Seabird Genius](https://oup.nz/library/seabird-genius/) - The first biography of Lance Richdale, who achieved international fame as the father of Otago's albatross colony from 1936 and for his research on the behaviour of the Yellow-eyed Penguin
- [This City](https://oup.nz/library/this-city/) - This City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel.
- [Tuhituhi](https://oup.nz/library/tuhituhi/) - This study of the art of William Hodges opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early paintings produced in the South Pacific.
- [Wild Heart](https://oup.nz/library/wild-heart/) - Images of pristine forests, mountain ranges, untameable rivers and empty expanses of coastline are the key attraction in how we promote Aotearoa New Zealand internationally
- [Ruling Passions](https://oup.nz/library/ruling-passions/) - These essays are by one of Australasia's leading media and social science intellectuals. 'Culture' is often seen as somehow elevated above daily life or set apart from it.
- [Piano Forte](https://oup.nz/library/piano-forte/) - Piano Forte focuses on the era in which the piano became of central significance in the private, social and cultural lives of many New Zealanders.
- [Give your thoughts life](https://oup.nz/library/give-your-thoughts-life/) - The provincial newspaper columns were the 'public spheres' of their time, places for geographically separated individuals to contribute opinions to the debates of an immature democracy.
- [Children of Rogernomics](https://oup.nz/library/children-of-rogernomics/) - From 2003 to 2007 Nairn, Higgins and Sligo investigated what life was like for 93 young people coming to adulthood in the wake of Rogernomics.
- [Democratic Governance and Health](https://oup.nz/library/democratic-governance-and-health/) - New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system.
- [Far from 'Home'](https://oup.nz/library/far-from-home/) - For almost 200 years, the English have been one of the largest migrant streams to New Zealand (they have been on the move globally since around 1600).
- [Your Unselfish Kindness](https://oup.nz/library/your-unselfish-kindness/) - Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906–1939) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter.
- [Playlunch](https://oup.nz/library/playlunch/) - First published in 1996 and now updated, this book contains plays by established New Zealand writers that were written for lunchtime theatre.
- [A Global Feast](https://oup.nz/library/a-global-feast/) - More than a recipe book, this colourful collection arose from a unique community project and invites us to explore the dishes and food lore of 26 people.
- [Southern Lakes Tracks & Trails](https://oup.nz/library/southern-lakes-tracks-trails/) - Essential guide to the many tracks and trails of the beautiful inland regions of the lower half of the South Island, with an emphasis on foothills and forests.
- [Harbour](https://oup.nz/library/harbour/) - For three years Alastair Grant travelled the great inland harbours of the west coast of the North Island creating a photographic record of these fascinating and under-appreciated regions
- [William Colenso](https://oup.nz/library/william-colenso/) - Born in Penzance in 1811, Colenso was perhaps the most interesting of New Zealand's early missionaries. He established the first printing press.
- [Making Our Place](https://oup.nz/library/making-our-place/) - Fascination with the interplay of people and place inspired the editors to bring together New Zealanders from differing backgrounds and disciplines to explore some of the stories and sites of conflict and change to be found amongst our sacred, historic, rural, urban and coastal landscapes.
- [The Truth Garden](https://oup.nz/library/the-truth-garden/) - Poems in The Truth Garden take risks because they need to; in the clamour of family life they have required attention, collected thought and a spirited attitude
- [Butterflies of the South Pacific](https://oup.nz/library/butterflies-of-the-south-pacific/) - The South Pacific is a vast expanse of ocean – over 50 million km² – with tiny scattered islands and island groups. From Kiribati, Tuvalu and Fiji in the west
- [Kerikeri Mission Station and Kororipo Pā](https://oup.nz/library/kerikeri-mission-station-and-kororipo-pa/) - A concise guide to the Kerikeri mission from its inception in 1819 until 1845, when it became a secular settlement & the Stone Store was sold to private owners.
- [Landfall 227](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-227/) - A raft of New Zealand writers and artists diagnose 'vital signs' in this volume of Landfall. From the slogan on a T-shirt in Mexico, to the moon rising over a flag in Turkey
- [Dolphins Down Under](https://oup.nz/library/dolphins-down-under/) - New Zealand dolphins, also known as Hector's dolphins, are fascinating and beautiful animals. Their numbers are now under constant threat – especially from human fishing activities.
- [Childhoods](https://oup.nz/library/childhoods/) - Children are citizens with autonomy and rights identified by international agencies and United Nations conventions, but these rights are not readily enforceable
- [Diplomatic Ladies](https://oup.nz/library/diplomatic-ladies/) - Diplomatic Ladies tells the inside story of New Zealand's diplomatic wives and daughters over a hundred years of diplomacy.
- [Ecosanctuaries](https://oup.nz/library/ecosanctuaries/) - Over the past 10 years many communities around the country have launched ambitious projects to bring New Zealand's native ecologies back to the mainland.
- [A Rising Tide](https://oup.nz/library/a-rising-tide/) - In New Zealand, evangelical Christianity has always played a significant role. This book explores the fascinating story of the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in the 1950s and 60s, and its pre-war origins.
- [Peace, Power & Politics](https://oup.nz/library/peace-power-politics/) - This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation.
- [Unpacking the Kists](https://oup.nz/library/unpacking-the-kists/) - Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland.
- [Charles Brasch Journals 1938–1945](https://oup.nz/library/charles-brasch-journals-1938-1945/) - For most of his adult life, Charles Brasch's most intimate companion was his diary. In these journals, written in London he is a young man searching for answers
- [Making a New Land](https://oup.nz/library/making-a-new-land/) - Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history
- [Creature Comforts](https://oup.nz/library/creature-comforts/) - New Zealand has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world – in 2011, 68 per cent of all Kiwi households had at least one pet.
- [Ara Mai he Tētēkura - Visioning our Futures](https://oup.nz/library/ara-mai-he-tetekura-visioning-our-futures/) - With less than 2 per cent of the total Māori population holding a doctorate, the need for Māori leadership planning in academia has never been greater.
- [Among Secret Beauties](https://oup.nz/library/among-secret-beauties/) - Climbing entered the world stage in the 1950s: this was the era that produced not only Sir Edmund Hillary but a strong body of world-class New Zealand climbers.
- [Flying Kiwis](https://oup.nz/library/flying-kiwis/) - Leaving home to see the world is something that succeeding generations of young New Zealanders have done in ever-increasing numbers.
- [Born to a Red-Headed Woman](https://oup.nz/library/born-to-a-red-headed-woman/) - Using the extraordinary capacity of music to revive the places and people from our pasts, this poetic memoir springs from over 50 song titles or song lines and spans more than four decades.
- [Cloudboy](https://oup.nz/library/cloudboy/) - Cloudboy is a deep-mulling, richly sensitive account of a mother's adjustments to the needs of an autistic child.
- [The Enderby Settlement](https://oup.nz/library/the-enderby-settlement/) - This book is a history of the British Enderby settlement on the Auckland Islands 1849–52 and its associated whaling venture.
- [When the Farm Gates Opened](https://oup.nz/library/when-the-farm-gates-opened/) - The economic reforms launched by the 1984 David Lange-led Labour government changed New Zealand forever. Agriculture bore the brunt of those changes.
- [I whanau au ki Kaiapoi](https://oup.nz/library/i-whanau-au-ki-kaiapoi/) - Natanahira Waruwarutu was a child at the time of the capture of Kaiapoi Pa by Te Rauparaha's Ngati Toa warriors in 1832.
- [Maurice Gee](https://oup.nz/library/maurice-gee/) - Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, they offer a distinctive body of work that shows New Zealand to children and young adults.
- [Fitz](https://oup.nz/library/fitz/) - The story of James Edward FitzGerald, whose energy & enthusiasm contributed so much to the early history of Christchurch. Orator, writer, politician & journalist
- [Working Lives c. 1900](https://oup.nz/library/working-lives-c-1900/) - For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride.
- [White Ghosts, Yellow Peril](https://oup.nz/library/white-ghosts-yellow-peril/) - White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand.
- [Dumont d’Urville](https://oup.nz/library/dumont-durville/) - Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook.
- [The White Clock](https://oup.nz/library/the-white-clock/) - Delving both into 'the worlds of the mind' and 'where he happens to be', Owen Marshall brings us poetry that is steeped in the Classics, History and Literature.
- [Pills and Potions](https://oup.nz/library/pills-and-potions/) - In this fascinating and by turns alarming book, Claire Le Couteur has researched the background to some of the popular medical remedies in New Zealand's medical history, based on items found in the collection of the Cotter Medical History Trust.
- [Pewhairangi](https://oup.nz/library/pewhairangi/) - When a small group of three English families were landed in the bay below Rangihoua pā in 1814, under the protection of its chief and inhabitants, the story told in Pēwhairangi began.
- [Landfall 228](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-228/) - Landfall 228 is an event, an occasion: an arts and literary festival between covers. Offering darting word-play, erudite exploration of culture and literature.
- [Annie’s War](https://oup.nz/library/annies-war/) - Annie's War is a remarkable book. There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War.
- [Refuge New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/refuge-new-zealand/) - Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland.
- [Grace Joel](https://oup.nz/library/grace-joel/) - Dunedin-born artist Grace Joel (1865–1924) exhibited to acclaim in London and Paris, yet she and her art are relatively unknown today.
- [Charles Brasch: Selected Poems](https://oup.nz/library/charles-brasch-selected-poems/) - Charles Brasch (1909–1973) was the founder and first editor of Landfall, New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas.
- [Sanctuary](https://oup.nz/library/sanctuary/) - Sanctuary: The discovery of wonder is an engaging and moving book full of spiritual insight, wisdom and warmth.
- [Landfall 229](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-229/) - Still at the very centre of local culture, New Zealand's liveliest and most important literary magazine returns in 2015 with Landfall 229, showcasing the best of our contemporary writing across a breadth of styles and themes.
- [A Place to Go On From](https://oup.nz/library/a-place-to-go-on-from/) - Dunedin poet Iain Lonie (1932–1988), a Cambridge scholar who enjoyed an international reputation as a medical historian, died before his poetry was fully appreciated.
- [Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness](https://oup.nz/library/migration-ethnicity-and-madness/) - Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910 provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. I
- [Hocken Prince of Collectors](https://oup.nz/library/hocken-prince-of-collectors/) - Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836–1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862, aged 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed books, manuscripts, sketches, maps and photographs of early New Zealand.
- [Generation Kitchen](https://oup.nz/library/generation-kitchen/) - Much sought after by oil companies, 'generation kitchens' are sites where geological forces have combined to create conditions for oil production.
- [From Alba to Aotearoa](https://oup.nz/library/from-alba-to-aotearoa/) - Scots made up nearly 20 per cent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand's Scots migrants have remained blurred.
- [The Urewera Notebook](https://oup.nz/library/the-urewera-notebook/) - Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of her 'Urewera Notebook' during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever.
- [Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns](https://oup.nz/library/oceanian-journeys-and-sojourns/) - Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns focuses on how Pacific Island peoples – Oceanians – think about a range of journeys near and far
- [The Conch Trumpet](https://oup.nz/library/the-conch-trumpet/) - The Conch Trumpet calls to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand. It sounds the signal to listen close, critically and 'in alert reverie'.
- [Tender Machines](https://oup.nz/library/tender-machines/) - In this follow-up collection to the award-winning The Truth Garden, Emma Neale asks where exactly do the personal and the political drop hands?
- [The Lives of Colonial Objects](https://oup.nz/library/the-lives-of-colonial-objects/) - The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them.
- [Standing My Ground](https://oup.nz/library/standing-my-ground/) - For more than five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-grassland reserves in the South Island high country to his involvement in the 2011–13 campaign to save the Denniston Plateau from mining
- [Unearthly Landscapes](https://oup.nz/library/unearthly-landscapes-2/) - By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with gener­ations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of corpses.
- [Taking My Mother to the Opera](https://oup.nz/library/taking-my-mother-to-the-opera/) - Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny ... this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history.
- [Landfall 230](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-230/) - Landfall is a place, a mythic place, a piece of valuable cultural estate, consistently representing over time the robust heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand arts and letters.
- [Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand Education](https://oup.nz/library/sexual-cultures-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-education/) - Aotearoa New Zealand was recently rated by the Lonely Planet travel guide as the second most 'gay friendly' country in the world
- [The Lives of Coat Hangers](https://oup.nz/library/the-lives-of-coat-hangers/) - In Sudesh Mishra's new collection the opening poem, 'The Capacious Muse', acts as a manifesto or declaration of intent.
- [Pushing Boundaries](https://oup.nz/library/pushing-boundaries/) - We know a lot about the early missionaries who came to New Zealand from 1814 and how Christianity developed through their complex interactions with Māori.
- [The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington](https://oup.nz/library/the-prison-diary-of-a-c-barrington/) - A.C. Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War 2. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary,
- [As the Verb Tenses](https://oup.nz/library/as-the-verb-tenses/) - As the Verb Tenses is the work of a reflective and sensitive poetic talent: one run with gleaming wires of joy.
- [Ka Ngaro Te Reo](https://oup.nz/library/ka-ngaro-te-reo/) - In 1800, te reo Māori was the only language spoken in New Zealand. By 1899, it was on the verge of disappearing altogether.
- [Women of the Catlins](https://oup.nz/library/women-of-the-catlins/) - A haunting, off-the-beaten-track destination, the little-known Catlins region of New Zealand is as mysterious today as it ever was.
- [Landfall 231](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-231/) - Edited by David Eggleton What's inside Featured Artists Peter Peryer, Saskia Leek, Ngataiharuru Taepa Writers Nick Ascroft, Shelley Arlidge, Mark Young, C.K. Stead, Jodie Dalgleish, Jessie Puru, Liz Breslin, Claire Orchard, Rachael Taylor, Brian Turner, John Adams, Judy O'Kane, Vaughan Rapatahana, L.E. Scott, Antony Millen, Carin Smeaton, Erik Kennedy, Leilani Tamu, Allison Li, Rata Gordon,
- [Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific](https://oup.nz/library/mothers-darlings-of-the-south-pacific/) - Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children.
- [Artefacts of Encounter](https://oup.nz/library/artefacts-of-encounter/) - The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania.
- [The Broken Decade](https://oup.nz/library/the-broken-decade/) - The Depression of the 1930s was a defining period in New Zealand history. It had its own vocabulary – swaggers and sugarbags, relief work and sustenance, the Queen Street riots and special constables.
- [Getting It Right](https://oup.nz/library/getting-it-right/) - After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Alan Roddick published his first collection, The Eye Corrects: Poems 1955–1965, in 1967. A mere 49 years later comes the sequel, Getting it Right.
- [Only Two for Everest](https://oup.nz/library/only-two-for-everest/) - The First New Zealand Himalayan Expedition, in 1951, was initiated by Earle Riddiford, who with Ed Cotter & Pasang Dawa Lama made the first ascent of Mukut Parbat.
- [The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield](https://oup.nz/library/the-collected-poems-of-katherine-mansfield/) - The first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's poetry, including 26 poems, dating from 1909–10, discovered by Gerri Kimber in the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2015.
- [Landfall 232](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-232/) - New essay competition for ages 16–21. Results of Landfall Essay Competition. Results of Caselberg Trust Poetry Prize.
- [Alzheimer's and a Spoon](https://oup.nz/library/alzheimers-and-a-spoon/) - Alzheimer's and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories – a conversation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to determine if you're mostly meercat or Hufflepuff.
- [Undreamed of...](https://oup.nz/library/undreamed-of/) - In 1966 Michael Illingworth, whose oil painting Adam and Eve appears on the front cover of this book, was awarded the inaugural Frances Hodgkins Fellowship.
- [Seabirds beyond the Mountain Crest](https://oup.nz/library/seabirds-beyond-the-mountain-crest/) - Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest tells the fascinating story of New Zealand's endemic Hutton's shearwater, a species that breeds only at two remote locations.
- [Windows on a Women’s World](https://oup.nz/library/windows-on-a-womens-world/) - The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland
- [Manifesto Aotearoa](https://oup.nz/library/manifesto-aotearoa/) - A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice.
- [Charles Brasch Journals 1945–1957](https://oup.nz/library/charles-brasch-journals-1945-1957/) - This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48.
- [Landfall 233](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-233/) - Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.
- [Polly Plum](https://oup.nz/library/polly-plum/) - Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand's earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions saw her described in the nineteenth century as 'our own little stray strap of a modern female fanatic'.
- [Disobedient Teaching](https://oup.nz/library/disobedient-teaching/) - This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential.
- [A Strange Beautiful Excitement](https://oup.nz/library/a-strange-beautiful-excitement/) - How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood.
- [The Catlins and the Southern Scenic Route](https://oup.nz/library/the-catlins-and-the-southern-scenic-route/) - An out-of-the-way corner of the South Island, the Catlins is a beautiful and relatively unspoilt area with many natural attractions, including that rare thing on the east coast, native forest.
- [Phoney Wars](https://oup.nz/library/phoney-wars/) - Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War, argues that we had no business going to war against either Germany in 1939 or Japan in 1941.
- [Surrender](https://oup.nz/library/surrender/) - As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong.
- [Floating Islanders](https://oup.nz/library/floating-islanders/) - Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa celebrates 30 rich years of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
- [Landfall 234](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-234/) - Results of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2017, the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize and winning essays from Landfall Essay Competition 2017.
- [Cleansing the Colony](https://oup.nz/library/cleansing-the-colony/) - It's no secret that Van Diemen's Land was a penal colony for British convicts. Yet surprisingly at least 110 New Zealand prisoners were also transported to the island.
- [The Expatriate Myth](https://oup.nz/library/the-expatriate-myth/) - Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth & early twentieth century travelled extensively or lived overseas for a time & often led very interesting lives.
- [The World's Din](https://oup.nz/library/the-worlds-din/) - The arrival of radical new audio technology from overseas in the late 19th century led to a 'sonic revolution' that changed New Zealanders lives forever.
- [Charles Brasch Journals 1958–1973](https://oup.nz/library/charles-brasch-journals-1958-1973/) - This third and final volume of Charles Brasch's compelling private journals covers the years from when he was 48 to his death at 64.
- [To the Mountains](https://oup.nz/library/to-the-mountains/) - A schoolgirl races from class to join a weekend trip to the hills. A mountaineering guide recalls his first weeks on the job during the 1920s.
- [Landfall 235](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-235/) - Results and winning essays from the 2018 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Award, and judge's report by Emma Neale.
- [Edgeland and other poems](https://oup.nz/library/edgeland-and-other-poems/) - The poetry in David Eggleton's new collection possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poet's recognisable signature oratory voice.
- [See No Evil](https://oup.nz/library/see-no-evil/) - See No Evil begins by relating the little-known history of West Papua, but its focus is on the impact of NZ's foreign policy on the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants.
- [Whisper of a Crow's Wing](https://oup.nz/library/whisper-of-a-crows-wing/) - Majella Cullinane's remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crow's Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice.
- [Niue and the Great War](https://oup.nz/library/niue-and-the-great-war/) - The story of tiny Niue's involvement in the Great War has captivated people since an account was first published by Margaret Pointer in 2000.
- [The Farewell Tourist](https://oup.nz/library/the-farewell-tourist/) - Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glenny's The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal.
- [Hudson & Halls](https://oup.nz/library/hudson-halls/) - Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing – homosexuality.
- [The Unconventional Career of Dr Muriel Bell](https://oup.nz/library/the-unconventional-career-of-dr-muriel-bell/) - Whether or not you have heard of pioneering nutritionist Muriel Bell, she has had a profound effect on your health.
- [Landfall 236](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-236/) - Results and winning essays from the Landfall Essay Competition 2018, and results from the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2018.
- [My Body, My Business](https://oup.nz/library/my-body-my-business/) - In My Body, My Business, 11 former and current New Zealand sex workers speak frankly, in their own voices, about their lives in and out of the sex industry.
- [Filming the Colonial Past](https://oup.nz/library/filming-the-colonial-past/) - The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation's history. Filming the Colonial Past tells a story of filmmakers' fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years.
- [Otago](https://oup.nz/library/otago/) - The University of Otago has always taken pride in its status as New Zealand's first university. Starting a university in 1869 was a bold move: other regions observed Otago's action with a mixture of surprise, scepticism and envy.
- [Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman?](https://oup.nz/library/slippery-jim-or-patriotic-statesman/) - This is a biography of one of New Zealand's most colourful and persuasive politicians, James Macandrew.
- [Wanaka](https://oup.nz/library/wanaka/) - Neville Peat describes the scenic splendour of Wanaka and the myriad activities and attractions for visitors.
- [The Moon in a Bowl of Water](https://oup.nz/library/the-moon-in-a-bowl-of-water/) - Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlow's The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his craft.
- [Passageways](https://oup.nz/library/passageways/) - The author's eight great-grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate and Oliver. She looks at their reasons for migration, how they fared once settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching and surveying. Both of her parents were graduates
- [Every morning, so far, I’m alive](https://oup.nz/library/every-morning-so-far-im-alive/) - Every morning, so far, I'm alive is about what it's like to live in a world where shaking a stranger's hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread.
- [West Island](https://oup.nz/library/west-island/) - Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation.
- [Landfall 237](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-237/) - Results and winning essays from the 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition, and judge's report by Emma Neale.
- [The Mosses of New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/the-mosses-of-new-zealand/) - Mosses are small but beautiful plants, responsible in part for the lush appearance of New Zealand's rainforests.
- [To the Occupant](https://oup.nz/library/to-the-occupant/) - To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations.
- [Two or More Islands](https://oup.nz/library/two-or-more-islands/) - Diana Bridge's subjects are reflected through a range of cultural lenses. To engagement with Western and New Zealand literature should be added her immersion in the great Asian cultures of China and India.
- [A Communist in the Family](https://oup.nz/library/a-communist-in-the-family/) - A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley.
- [Dead Letters](https://oup.nz/library/dead-letters/) - In 1918, from deep within the West Coast bush, a miner on the run from the military wrote a letter to his sweetheart. Two months later he was in jail.
- [The Braided River](https://oup.nz/library/the-braided-river/) - The Braided River explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries
- [Stewart Island Rakiura National Park](https://oup.nz/library/stewart-island-rakiura-national-park/) - Stewart Island is an increasingly popular holiday destination for eco-tourism & outdoor recreation, with many bush walks & a wealth of natural features to enjoy
- [Peat](https://oup.nz/library/peat/) - Peat starts out as Jenner's study of the Kapiti Expressway, built between 2013 & 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre from her own house.
- [Deadpan](https://oup.nz/library/deadpan/) - The title of James Norcliffe's tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in an alert, compassionate yet sceptical voice. The book's first section, 'Poor Yorick', shares the thoughts of an introspective narrator as he contends with the travails of
- [A City Possessed](https://oup.nz/library/a-city-possessed/) - Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the harrowing account of one of New Zealand's most high-profile criminal cases – a story of child sexual abuse allegations, gender politics and the law. In detailing the events of the 1990s that led up to and surrounded the allegations made against several staff of the Christchurch
- [Listening In](https://oup.nz/library/listening-in/) - In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems show, often sardonically, how language can be undermined: linguistic registers
- [Women Mean Business](https://oup.nz/library/women-mean-business/) - From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand's nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women.
- [Queer Objects](https://oup.nz/library/queer-objects/) - But what makes an object queer? Queer Objects considers this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space.
- [The Paper Nautilus](https://oup.nz/library/the-paper-nautilus/) - The Paper Nautilus is about loss – the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness.
- [Landfall 238](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-238/) - Results from the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2019, with judge's report by Jenny Bornholdt; results & winning essays from the Landfall Essay Competition 2019,
- [Strong Words](https://oup.nz/library/strong-words/) - Judging the Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submissions made it impossible to choose
- [Politics in the Playground](https://oup.nz/library/politics-in-the-playground/) - Politics in the Playground: The world of early childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand is a lively history of early childhood education and care in the postwar era.
- [Letters of Denis Glover](https://oup.nz/library/letters-of-denis-glover/) - Nothing about this excerpt from a letter by Denis Glover will surprise anyone who knows him by reputation. He – and his letters – could be witty, intelligent, alarmingly frank and frequently highly entertaining.
- [The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals](https://oup.nz/library/the-handbook-of-new-zealand-mammals/) - The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the NZ region incl the NZ sector of Antarctica
- [The General and the Nightingale](https://oup.nz/library/the-general-and-the-nightingale/) - Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged.
- [This is your real name](https://oup.nz/library/this-is-your-real-name/) - Elizabeth Morton's poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world – the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, 'the black heat at the centre of things'.
- [Every Now and Then I Have Another Child](https://oup.nz/library/every-now-and-then-i-have-another-child/) - A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker ... are they real or imagined?
- [Landfall 239](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-239/) - Results from the 2020 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition.
- [Kalimpong Kids](https://oup.nz/library/kalimpong-kids/) - In the early 20th century, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an organised migration scheme from Kalimpong, in the Darjeeling district of India
- [From Suffrage to a Seat in the House](https://oup.nz/library/from-suffrage-to-a-seat-in-the-house/) - New Zealand has always proudly worn its status of being the first country to enfranchise women. But not many know that it took a further 40 long years to get the first woman elected to Parliament.
- [Wild Dunedin](https://oup.nz/library/wild-dunedin/) - Dunedin city and its environs are home to an amazing range of habitats and landscapes, of plants, animals, birds, insects and geological features.
- [Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses](https://oup.nz/library/refocusing-ethnographic-museums-through-oceanic-lenses/) - Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums
- [Te Papa to Berlin](https://oup.nz/library/te-papa-to-berlin/) - Ken Gorbey is a remarkable man who for 15 years was involved with developing and realising the revolutionary cultural concept that became Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.
- [Crossing the Lines](https://oup.nz/library/crossing-the-lines/) - Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times.
- [Sinking Lessons](https://oup.nz/library/sinking-lessons/) - The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard.
- [Thomas Potts of Canterbury](https://oup.nz/library/thomas-potts-of-canterbury/) - In 1858 Canterbury settler Thomas Potts protested against the destruction of tōtara on the Port Hills near Christchurch.
- [Bus Stops on the Moon](https://oup.nz/library/bus-stops-on-the-moon/) - A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives.
- [Ko Aotearoa Tātou](https://oup.nz/library/ko-aotearoa-tatou/) - In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.'
- [Map for the Heart](https://oup.nz/library/map-for-the-heart/) - Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the Ida Valley where she lives, and follow the Manuherekia River from the mountains to its confluence with the Clutha/Mata-au.
- [Nouns, verbs, etc.](https://oup.nz/library/nouns-verbs-etc/) - Fiona Farrell has published 4 collections of poetry. Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'.
- [Landfall 240](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-240/) - Featuring the winners of the Landfall Essay Competition 2020, the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 and the Frank Sargeson Prize 2020.
- [Common Ground](https://oup.nz/library/common-ground/) - Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time.
- [The Sets](https://oup.nz/library/the-sets/) - The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea – as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares.
- [Kate Edger](https://oup.nz/library/kate-edger/) - In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement'.
- [The Wilder Years](https://oup.nz/library/the-wilder-years/) - David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019–21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '.
- [Ghosts](https://oup.nz/library/ghosts/) - This collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories.
- [Brass Band to Follow](https://oup.nz/library/brass-band-to-follow/) - Bryan Walpert's poems range in its focus from flowers to infinities, from laundry to eternity, but are founded most fully on what it is to move into middle age
- [Landfall 241](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-241/) - Results from the 2021 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition
- [Beachcombing](https://oup.nz/library/beachcombing/) - If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you.
- [Strong Words 2](https://oup.nz/library/strong-words-2/) - Strong Words #2 showcases the long-listed entries for the 2019 and 2020 Landfall essay competitions.
- [James Courage Diaries](https://oup.nz/library/james-courage-diaries/) - New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years.
- [Unseasoned Campaigner](https://oup.nz/library/unseasoned-campaigner/) - Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua.
- [Invasive Predators in New Zealand](https://oup.nz/library/invasive-predators-in-new-zealand/) - The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals.
- [Across the Pass](https://oup.nz/library/across-the-pass/) - New Zealanders have produced a rich body of literature about tramping, with writing spanning nearly two centuries and ranging from poetry and songs, journals and newspaper pieces to magazine articles and books.
- [Wai Pasifika](https://oup.nz/library/wai-pasifika/) - Focuses on the increasingly endangered resource of freshwater, and what so-called developed societies can learn from the Indigenous voices of the Pacific.
- [Come Back to Mona Vale](https://oup.nz/library/come-back-to-mona-vale/) - A beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century.
- [tumble](https://oup.nz/library/tumble/) - Joanna Preston's bold and original voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space.
- [Can’t Get There from Here](https://oup.nz/library/cant-get-there-from-here/) - Can't Get There from Here traces the expansion and – more commonly – the contraction of New Zealand's passenger rail network over the last century.
- [Next](https://oup.nz/library/next/) - Written in the eighth & ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick's third collection of poetry, examines the past, observes the present & speculates on the future
- [Anzac Nations](https://oup.nz/library/anzac-nations/) - In Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand & Australia 1965–2015 Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac & how commemoration has evolved
- [The Pistils](https://oup.nz/library/the-pistils/) - A dispatch from the cusp of change appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner.
- [Night School](https://oup.nz/library/night-school/) - Explores the gap between fathers & sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts & corrodes, and whether weed, art & aroha can save us in a godless world.
- [Landfall 243](https://oup.nz/library/landfall-243/) - Landfall is Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal and is published twice a year.
- [Notes on Womanhood](https://oup.nz/library/notes-on-womanhood/) - After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn't be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her.
- [Naming the Beasts](https://oup.nz/library/naming-the-beasts/) - Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide.
- [Fossil Treasures of Foulden Maar](https://oup.nz/library/fossil-treasures-of-foulden-maar/) - A paleontological site of international significance, Foulden Maar in Otago, New Zealand is home to an amazing record of life on Earth.

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- [Strong Words](https://oup.nz/book-series/strong-words/)

## Co-Authors

- [Fiona Kidman](https://oup.nz/book-author/fiona-kidman/) - Dame Fiona Kidman is a poet, fiction writer and memoirist. She has also written for the screen industry. Her internationally published work has won numerous prestigious literary awards, and her honours include a damehood (DCNZM), an OBE and the French Legion of Honour (La Légion d’Honneur). She lives on a cliff top in Wellington.
- [David Eggleton](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-eggleton/) - David Eggleton (Rotuman Fijian/Tongan/Pākehā) has published ten previous poetry collections. He is a six-time winner of the Montana Reviewer of the Year, and a former Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in 2016, the same year that The Conch Trumpet won the Poetry Award at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. From 2009–17, Eggleton was editor of Landfall. He received the 2018 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency and served as the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–22.
- [Dougal McNeill](https://oup.nz/book-author/dougal-mcneill/) - Dougal McNeill teaches in the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Wellington. He is active in the Tertiary Education Union. His other books include Writing the 1926 General Strike, co-authored with Charles Ferrall, and an edition of Harry Holland’s Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist.
- [Jason Gurney](https://oup.nz/book-author/jason-gurney/) - Dr Jason Gurney is the Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) Research Group, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago (Wellington campus). He has worked in the public health sector in epidemiology for the past 15 years. In 2018 he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Māori Emerging Leader Fellowship, and in 2023 was part of a team awarded the HRC Liley Medal for research into the causes of rheumatic fever. The Twisted Chain is his first book.
- [Miriam Sharland](https://oup.nz/book-author/miriam-sharland/) - Miriam Sharland is a writer and editor focusing on creative non-fiction, travel, biography/memoir and natural history. Based in England and Aotearoa New Zealand, her essays, reviews and features have appeared in numerous books, journals, magazines and newspapers, and online. These include Reader’s Digest, The Dark Mountain Project, The Dominion Post, Headland and Adventure Travel. In 2021 she was awarded a writing grant from the Earle Creativity Trust and in 2022 she was runner-up in the New Zealand Society of Authors Central Districts summer essay competition. Heart Stood Still is her first book.
- [Jo McNeice](https://oup.nz/book-author/jo-mcneice/) - Jo McNeice is a poet based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, in 2013, and her poems have been published in Turbine | Kapohau, Sport, JAAM and Mayhem. In 2023, McNeice won the prestigious Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript Blue Hour.
- [Janet Newman](https://oup.nz/book-author/janet-newman/) - Janet Newman lives at Koputaroa in Horowhenua. She has a PhD from Massey University for her thesis ‘Imagining Ecologies: traditions of ecopoetry in Aotearoa New Zealand’ (2019). Her essays about the sonnets of Michele Leggott and the Romantic ecopoetry of Dinah Hawken won the Journal of New Zealand Literature Prize for New Zealand Literary Studies in 2014 and 2016. She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition, the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems and was a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards. Her first collection of poems, Unseasoned Campaigner (OUP, 2021), won the 2022 New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Book Award for Poetry.
- [Robert Sullivan](https://oup.nz/book-author/robert-sullivan/) - Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is the author of 10 books of poetry, a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. His most recent poetry collections include Tūnui | Comet (AUP, 2022) and Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (AUP, 2024). Robert is the co-editor of anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana (AUP, 2002) and Mauri Ola (AUP, 2010), alongside Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri. He’s also the co-editor of an anthology of Māori poetry, Puna Wai Kōrero (AUP, 2014), with Reina Whaitiri. Among many awards, he received the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
- [Jeanette Wikaira](https://oup.nz/book-author/jeanette-wikaira/) - Jeanette Wikaira (Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāpuhi) is the Executive Manager of Arts, Culture and Recreation at Dunedin City Council. She focuses on reclaiming story sovereignty to support community agency, creativity and courage.
- [Angela Wanhalla](https://oup.nz/book-author/angela-wanhalla/) - Angela Wanhalla FRSNZ (Kāi Tahu) is a Professor of History at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago. She researches the impacts of colonialism on Māori, women and whānau, particularly in relation to colonial visual culture and Māori engagement with nineteenth-century photography..
- [Jacinta Ruru](https://oup.nz/book-author/jacinta-ruru/) - Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Māori and a Distinguished Professor of Law at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago. Her work focuses on reconciling state legal systems with Indigenous laws and advocating for policies aligned with Te Tiriti o Waitangi to empower Māori in managing and governing lands and waters.
- [Lynley Edmeades](https://oup.nz/book-author/lynley-edmeades/) - Lynley Edmeades is the author of the creative non-fiction book Hiding Places (Otago University Press 2025); two poetry collections, As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016) and Listening In (Otago University Press, 2019); and a poetry and art picture book for adults, Bordering on Miraculous (Massey University Press, 2022), in collaboration with Saskia Leek. She currently teaches poetry and creative writing on the English programme at the University of Otago. She is the current editor of Landfall Tauraka and teaches English and creative writing at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
- [Emma Neale](https://oup.nz/book-author/emma-neale/) - Emma Neale is a novelist and poet. Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit is her seventh poetry collection, following To the Occupant (Otago University Press, 2019). Recognition for her work includes the 2008 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature and the 2011 Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry for The Truth Garden (Otago University Press, 2012). In 2020 Neale was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Prize for a Distinguished Contribution to New Zealand Poetry. A former editor of Landfall, she lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin and works as a freelance editor for publishers in New Zealand and Australia.
- [Cadence Chung](https://oup.nz/book-author/cadence-chung/) - Cadence Chung (she/they) is a poet, classical singer, and composer. She performs as a classical soloist and is a presenter on RNZ Concert. In 2023, she was named an Emerging Practitioner by the Fund for Acting and Musical Endeavours. Her poems have been published in Best New Zealand Poems, Landfall, Newsroom, Pantograph Punch, Starling, Sweet Mammalian, takahē, The Spinoff and Turbine / Kapohau. Her best-selling chapbook, anomalia, was released in 2022. She’s also the producer and editor of Mythos: an Audio-Visual Anthology of Art by Young New Zealanders, released in 2024. Mad Diva is her first full-length collection of poetry.
- [Lyndy McIntyre](https://oup.nz/book-author/lyndy-mcintyre/) - Lyndy McIntyre grew up in the 50s and 60s in a time of relative prosperity in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 70s she became increasingly active in left/progressive issues and her community. Lyndy learnt about unions on the job as a union delegate in the printing industry through the 1980s. In 1990 she started a 30-year working life in unions, with a brief stint as a parliamentary press secretary. In 2007 she was elected to Kāpiti Coast District Council. She served one term and decided that union work was more worthwhile. In 2015, she became one of two paid community organisers in Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020, she retired from her community organising role and began to write this story of the movement.
- [Susannah Grant](https://oup.nz/book-author/susannah-grant/) - Susannah Grant is a historian with a PhD from the University of Otago. In 2017, she published Windows on a Women’s World: The Dominican Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand (Otago University Press). Susannah lives in Gisborne with her family, on the banks of the Taruheru River.
- [Anna Green](https://oup.nz/book-author/anna-green/) - Anna Green is an Associate Professor at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington’s Stout Research Centre for NZ Studies. Anna specialises in memory and oral history using an interdisciplinary approach drawn from psychology, anthropology, sociology and literature. Anna serves as president of The National Oral History Association of New Zealand and contributes to various international scholarly associations and journals.
- [Megan Hutching](https://oup.nz/book-author/megan-hutching/) - Megan Hutching has worked as an oral historian for over 30 years, including at Auckland Libraries and Te Manatū Taonga. She has published on a wide range of topics, including immigration and New Zealand’s involvement in World War II and has an abiding interest in the history of women’s political activism.
- [Janet Charman](https://oup.nz/book-author/janet-charman/) - Janet Charman is a complete original, utterly distinctive in voice and content. She received the Best Book of Poetry Award at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Cold Snack. At the 2023 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards her 2022 collection, The Pistils (Otago University Press), was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry. Read about the book launch for The Intimacy Bus here.
- [Sue Wootton](https://oup.nz/book-author/sue-wootton/) - Sue Wootton has published five volumes of poetry and has received several awards, including the 2015 Caselburg Trust International Poetry Prize and second place in the 2013 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She won the 2011 NZ Poetry Society International Poetry Competition and has twice won the Takahē Poetry Competition. Sue was the Robert Burns Fellow in 2008 and was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 2020. Her first novel, Strip (Makaro Press, 2016), was longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards. Sue is the Publisher at Otago University Press, and co-editor of the Medical Humanities blog Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life. Author website suewootton.com Book website suewootton.com/book/the-yield
- [Welby Ings](https://oup.nz/book-author/welby-ings/) - Welby Ings is a professor of design at Auckland University of Technology, an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a consultant to international organisations on creativity and learning. An award-winning academic, designer, filmmaker and playwright, he did not learn to read or write until the age of fifteen, was labelled ‘slow’ at school and was eventually expelled. He has taught across all levels of New Zealand’s education system, is an outspoken critic of assessment-driven teaching, and in 2001 received the Prime Minister’s Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
- [Robin Hyde](https://oup.nz/book-author/robin-hyde/) - Robin Hyde, born Iris Wilkinson in Cape Town in 1906, was raised in Wellington, New Zealand. A journalist from the age of 17, she published her first poetry collection in 1929. Between 1935 and 1938, she wrote five novels, including Wednesday’s Children (1937) and Nor the Years Condemn (1938). Hyde/Wilkinson left New Zealand in 1938, visiting Hong Kong and China before travelling to England, where she died in 1939.
- [John Prins](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-prins/) - John Prins has a Master of Creative Writing from Auckland University. His stories have been published in Landfall and Newsroom. He lives with his family in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Pastoral Care is his first book.
- [Philip Armstrong](https://oup.nz/book-author/philip-armstrong/) - Philip Armstrong lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch and teaches literature, writing and human-animal studies at the University of Canterbury. His essay ‘On Tenuous Grounds’ won the 2011 Landfall Essay Prize, and his first poetry collection Sinking Lessons (Otago University Press, 2020) was the winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
- [Daphne Lee](https://oup.nz/book-author/daphne-lee/) - Daphne Lee has been a coordinator of the research team at Foulden Maar since 2003. She is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Geology Department at the University of Otago. In 2017, Daphne received the McKay Hammer from the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, the premier award for geological research in New Zealand.
- [Uwe Kaulfuss](https://oup.nz/book-author/uwe-kaulfuss/) - Uwe Kaulfuss completed a PhD focusing on the sedimentology and palaeontology of Foulden Maar. In 2009, he received the Harold Wellman Prize for the discovery of fossil insects at Foulden Maar. Uwe is based at the University of Göttingen, Germany, working on the biogeography and evolution of New Zealand fossil insects, funded by the German Research Foundation.
- [John Conran](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-conran/) - John Conran is a botanist and paleobotanist who joined the Foulden Maar research group in 2006. He has co-supervised several University of Otago postgraduate student projects on aspects of Foulden Maar flora. John is currently based at the University of Adelaide.
- [Robert G. Webster](https://oup.nz/book-author/robert-g-webster/) - Robert G Webster is a world-renowned virologist and international expert in influenza who was among the first scientists to acknowledge a link between human and avian flu. His team isolated and identified the avian-adapted strain of H5N1, the causative agent of H5N1 flu commonly known as avian influenza or ‘bird flu’. His distinguished career began in Otago. Born in Balclutha, he grew up on a farm before studying microbiology at the University of Otago. He has held many research posts in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. For the past few decades he has worked in infectious diseases at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He has published over 600 original articles and reviews on influenza viruses, and in his eighties still travels the world addressing conferences and scientific gatherings.
- [Robert Lord](https://oup.nz/book-author/robert-lord/) - Robert Lord (1945–1992) is an important figure in the history of literature and theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand. He wrote incisive and often satiric radio and stage plays, experimenting with traditional theatre forms and incorporating queer characters at a time when almost nobody else did. His enduring work includes such audience favourites as Well Hung, Bert and Maisy and Joyful and Triumphant. In 1973, he co-founded Playmarket, New Zealand’s playwrights’ agency and publisher.
- [Redmer Yska](https://oup.nz/book-author/redmer-yska/) - published books on a range of subjects, including New Zealand youth culture, Dutch New Zealanders (like himself), a biography of Wellington City and a history of the tabloid newspaper, NZ Truth. This is Yska’s second book about Katherine Mansfield. His first, A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington (Otago University Press, 2017), was longlisted for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
- [Jennifer Cattermole](https://oup.nz/book-author/jennifer-cattermole/) - Jennifer Cattermole is an Associate Professor at the University of Otago. She is one of Aotearoa’s leading ethnomusicologists with a particular interest in Māori, Moriori and Pacific Island music. She is passionate about taonga pūoro and is an experienced player, maker and educator.
- [Rowan Light](https://oup.nz/book-author/rowan-light/) - Rowan Light is a Pākehā historian at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau where he teaches Aotearoa New Zealand histories. He is also project curator at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, assisting with research on the history, remembrance and commemoration of the New Zealand Wars.
- [Hannah Bulloch](https://oup.nz/book-author/hannah-bulloch/) - Hannah Bulloch was named the 2017 Emerging Writer in Residence for the University Book Shop (Otago) and the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage Trust, and was a 2018 Writer in Residence at the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage. She holds a PhD in anthropology and a master’s degree in creative writing, and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Otago. Overland to the Island is her first creative non-fiction book.
- [Diana Morrow](https://oup.nz/book-author/diana-morrow/) - Diana Morrow, based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, is the author of Kate Edger: The life of a pioneer feminist (Otago University Press, 2021). She has also co-authored several local histories, among them Urban Village: The story of Ponsonby, Freeman’s Bay and St. Mary’s Bay (2008), as well as a general history of New Zealand, Changing Times: New Zealand since 1945 (2013). She co-edited and contributed to City of Enterprise: A history of Auckland business (2006) and Jewish Lives in New Zealand (2011) and wrote a chapter for A History of the New Zealand Foreign Service (2022).
- [Ruth Dallas](https://oup.nz/book-author/ruth-dallas/) - Ruth Dallas (1919–2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished poets. Among other awards and recognition, she held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago, received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the same university, and was awarded a CBE for her services to literature.
- [Camille Nurka](https://oup.nz/book-author/camille-nurka/) - Camille Nurka is a leading scholar of colonial and Indigenous histories in Australia, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand.
- [Megan Kitching](https://oup.nz/book-author/megan-kitching/) - Megan Kitching was born in Tāmaki Makarau Auckland and now lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University, London, looking at the influence of the natural sciences on eighteenth-century poetry. She has taught English and creative writing in the UK and at the University of Otago. Her poetry has appeared in The Frogmore Papers (UK), takahē, Poetry New Zealand, and Landfall. “The horses,” published in takahē 95, was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020. In 2021, she was the inaugural Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writer Resident. At the Point of Seeing is her debut collection.
- [Robyn Maree Pickens](https://oup.nz/book-author/robyn-maree-pickens/) - Robyn Maree Pickens is a poet and art writer who lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her work has been published in numerous online and print publications in Aotearoa and beyond, including Landfall, Empty Mirror, Into the Void, SAND Berlin, Cordite and the Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology (Carcanet Press, 2020). In 2018 she won the takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize, and was also a finalist in the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize judged by Eileen Myles. In 2020 she was longlisted for two US-based poetry prizes: the Palette Emerging Poet Prize and the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. That same year she was shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize (Ireland). In 2021, Robyn was placed second in the Vallum Poetry Award (Canada), and won the IWW Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. In early 2020, Robyn was awarded the Saari Residence in Finland. Robyn Maree Pickens has twice – in 2019 and 2021 – been a runner-up for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for a complete manuscript. She holds a master’s degree in art history and a PhD in English (ecopoetics). Tung is her first published collection.
- [Sarah Jane Barnett](https://oup.nz/book-author/sarah-jane-barnett/) - Sarah Jane Barnett is an Aotearoa writer and editor. Her poetry, essays, interviews and reviews have been published widely in Aotearoa journals and magazines, as well as in Australia and the US. Her debut poetry collection A Man Runs into a Woman was a finalist in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her second collection WORK was published in October 2015. You can find her at: sarahjanebarnett.net
- [Lynley Hood](https://oup.nz/book-author/lynley-hood/) - Award-winning author Lynley Hood holds a MSc in Physiology and a LittD for ‘published contributions of special excellence in literary, social and historical knowledge’. Her previous books include Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Minnie Dean: Her life and crimes. Lynley lives in Dunedin – five minutes’ walk from the big house on a big section where she and her late husband Jim raised their three children. A rare visual disorder has given her common cause with the poor, the disabled and the elderly who use the buses and walk, and has brought her far more interesting conversations with total strangers than she ever had when she drove a car. Her passion for tilting at windmills remains undimmed.
- [Matthew Cunningham](https://oup.nz/book-author/matthew-cunningham/) - Matthew Cunningham is a public servant, author and professional historian. He has a diverse publication history, including research monographs, oral histories, peer-reviewed journal articles, Waitangi Tribunal commissioned research reports, public history articles and journalistic and general interest pieces.
- [Marinus La Rooij](https://oup.nz/book-author/marinus-la-rooij/) - Marinus La Rooij has degrees in history and religious studies from the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington and has published on antisemitic conspiracy theories in 1930s New Zealand and Australia. Marinus has worked for the Waitangi Tribunal as a district inquiry facilitator and for the Crown Forestry Rental Trust as a research manager.
- [Paul Spoonley](https://oup.nz/book-author/paul-spoonley/) - Paul Spoonley completed his PhD on the New Zealand radical right in the 1980s. He is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Massey University, and until 2019 was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He received the Science and Technology Medal from the Royal Society for his contribution to cross-cultural understanding in 2009 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011.
- [André Brett](https://oup.nz/book-author/andre-brett/) - André Brett is a lecturer in history at Curtin University. In 2021 he received the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal for his exceptional contributions to historical knowledge. This is his fourth book. His many publications on New Zealand and Australian history include Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation and Demise of New Zealand’s Provinces, 1853–76, also with Otago University Press.
- [Sam van der Weerden](https://oup.nz/book-author/sam-van-der-weerden/) - Sam van der Weerden is a Dunedin mathematician, mapmaker and transport planner. He has carried out map work for Horizons Regional Council’s Whanganui bus network, Dunedin’s pedestrian routes, and promotional posters for Anthonie Tonnon’s Rail Land tour.
- [Alexander McKinnon](https://oup.nz/book-author/alexander-mckinnon/) - Alexander McKinnon was educated in Christchurch and overseas, and lives in Wellington. His essay ‘Canterbury Gothic’, a summary version of this story, won the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition. This is his first book.
- [Frances Edmond](https://oup.nz/book-author/frances-edmond/) - Frances Edmond (d.2023) was a screenwriter, playwright, non-fiction writer, former actress, and the literary executor for her mother, Lauris Edmond. Frances was led by her passion for writing stories about women and the tendrils of complex, interpersonal relationships in families. She won numerous awards for her screenplays, including the 2017 Platinum Award at the International Film Festival of Women, Social Issues, and Zero Discrimination for her short film ‘The Apple Tree’, and the 2008 Best Short Screenplay Award at the Moondance Film Festival for her short film, ‘Eeling’. She was also the 2007 Winner of the PANZ playwriting competition for her script ‘The Dance of Life’.
- [Majella Cullinane](https://oup.nz/book-author/majella-cullinane/) - Majella Cullinane writes poetry, fiction and essays. Her second collection Whisper of a Crow’s Wing (Otago University Press and Salmon Poetry, Ireland) was chosen as one of The New Zealand Listener’s Top Ten Poetry Books of 2018. Her writing has been published internationally, and she has held residencies and fellowships in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand. Majella was awarded a Copyright Licensing New Zealand Grant (2020) and a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant (2021) to complete Meantime. She graduated with a PhD in Creative Practice from the University of Otago in 2020. She lives in Kōpūtai, Port Chalmers with her family.
- [Joanna Preston](https://oup.nz/book-author/joanna-preston/) - Joanna Preston is an Australian-born poet, editor, and freelance writing tutor, who lives in a small rural town in Canterbury. In 2008 she won the inaugural Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry for her first collection, The Summer King (OUP), which went on to win the 2010 Mary Gilmore Award for the best first poetry collection by an Australian author. Preston has edited/co-edited seven poetry anthologies; and has been co-editor of Kokako magazine and poetry editor for takahē magazine.
- [Diana Bridge](https://oup.nz/book-author/diana-bridge/) - Deep Colour is the eighth collection by award-winning Wellington-based poet Diana Bridge. It follows Two or More Islands (Otago University Press, 2019). Bridge’s many accolades include the 2010 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry, the 2014 Landfall Essay Competition prize and the 2015 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. The chief judge, Irish poet Vona Groarke, described her work as ‘possibly amongst the best being written anywhere right now’. The same year, Bridge was the first New Zealander since Janet Frame to take up a residency at the Writers’ and Artists’ Colony at Yaddo in upstate New York. In the Supplementary Garden: New and selected poems (Cold Hub Press, 2016) was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Bridge has studied Chinese language, literature and art history and holds a PhD in Chinese poetry from the Australian National University.
- [Archibald Baxter](https://oup.nz/book-author/archibald-baxter/) - Archibald Baxter was born at Saddle Hill, Otago, in 1881. One of eight children, he left school aged 12 to follow his father into farming. After two years’ military incarceration and ill treatment overseas as a conscientious objector he returned to New Zealand in 1918. He married Millicent Macmillan Brown and they had two children – Terence, who was imprisoned for refusing conscription during World War II, and James K. Baxter, who went on to become one of the country’s most well-known literary figures. Archibald Baxter died in 1970.
- [Rushi Vyas](https://oup.nz/book-author/rushi-vyas/) - Rushi Vyas was born in Toledo, Ohio. He is co-author (with Rajiv Mohabir) of the chapbook Between Us, Not Half a Saint (GASHER Press, 2021) and his poem ‘Morning Chant: Scatter’ was republished as a broadside by the Center for Book Arts (US). He earned his MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder and his BSc from the University of Michigan. His poems have been published in US journals including Adroit Journal, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, The Offing and Tin House, and in NZ in Landfall and The Spinoff. In 2019, Rushi moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he now lives. Rushi is completing a PhD at the University of Otago and teaches on the university’s Creative Writing programme.
- [Catherine Bishop](https://oup.nz/book-author/catherine-bishop/) - Dr Catherine Bishop grew up in Whanganui. She completed her first degree at Victoria University in Wellington, before working as a maths teacher, bookseller and mother in the UK and Australia. She finished her PhD at the Australian National University in 2012 and now lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Her first book, Minding Her Own Business: Colonial businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth, 2015), won the prestigious Ashurst Business Literature Prize in 2016. She currently holds a research fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council at Macquarie University, where she is writing a history of women in business in twentieth-century Australia. The research for Women Mean Business was assisted by a New Zealand History Trust Award.
- [David Young](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-young/) - David Young is one of New Zealand’s most respected environmental authors, who has published widely in essays, articles, magazines and books. His recent books include: Faces of the River: NZ’s living water (with Bruce Foster) (1986); Our Islands, Our Selves: A history of conservation in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2004); Woven by Water: Histories from the Whanganui River (Huia, 2006); Whio: Saving New Zealand’s endangered blue duck (Craig Potton, 2006) and Rivers: New Zealand’s shared legacy (Random House, 2013).
- [Liz Breslin](https://oup.nz/book-author/liz-breslin/) - Liz Breslin writes poems, plays and stories. She is comfy on the page and the stage, was second runner-up in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Slam, performed at the 2016 TEDx Queenstown and came third in the Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition the same year. This is her first collection. Author website lizbreslin.com
- [Shaun Barnett](https://oup.nz/book-author/shaun-barnett/) - Shaun Barnett (1969–2024) was an outdoors author, editor and photographer. He co-authored several books including Tramping: A New Zealand History, Shelter from the Storm: the Story of New Zealand’s Backcountry Huts and A Bunk for the Night.
- [Ceridwen Fraser](https://oup.nz/book-author/ceridwen-fraser/) - Ceridwen (Crid) Fraser grew up in Australia and spent childhood summers poking around in rockpools along the New South Wales south coast. She developed a deep attachment to the ocean and the fascinating critters that live in and around it, and decided at the age of 11 to become a marine biologist. She has worked in Belgium and Australia, and today is an associate professor in the Marine Science Department at the University of Otago.
- [Matt Morris](https://oup.nz/book-author/matt-morris/) - Matt Morris completed a PhD on Christchurch’s garden history and works as the sustainability manager at the University of Canterbury. Matt also runs an organic sauerkraut business called The Urban Monk, and is the co-chair of Soil & Health Association National Council. He is deeply involved in community-led garden initiatives and has surrounded his home in New Brighton with fruit trees and vegetables. His previous book, Common Ground: Garden Histories of Aotearoa (Otago University Press, 2021) was shortlisted for the NZSA Heritage Literary Awards 2021.
- [Bryan Walpert](https://oup.nz/book-author/bryan-walpert/) - Bryan Walpert is the author of three previous collections of poetry – Etymology, A History of Glass and most recently Native Bird. He is also the author of a novella, Late Sonata, winner of the Seizure Viva La Novella prize; a collection of short fiction, Ephraim’s Eyes; and two scholarly books: Poetry and Mindfulness: Interruption to a Journey, and Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry. His work has appeared in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, the US and Canada, and has been recognised by the Montreal International Poetry Award, the New Zealand International Poetry Competition and the James Wright Poetry Award (US). He is a professor in creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. More on Bryan can be found at bryanwalpert.com.
- [Dom Felice Vaggioli](https://oup.nz/book-author/dom-felice-vaggioli/) - Dom Felice Vaggioli (1845–1921) was a Benedictine monk from Tuscany. Between 1879 and 1887, he was a missionary in New Zealand, holding posts in Gisborne, Auckland and Coromandel. John Crockett has a theology degree from Rome, a BA in history and Italian and an MA in applied sociology. He has worked as a social worker and counsellor in Auckland. His translation of Vaggioli’s autobiography A Deserter’s Adventures was published by Otago University Press in 2001. John lives in Kerikeri with his wife, Jennifer. His most recent novel, Called, is loosely based on Vaggioli’s adventures in New Zealand and his return to Italy as Abbot of San Giorgio monastery in Venice.
- [Elizabeth Morton](https://oup.nz/book-author/elizabeth-morton/) - Elizabeth Morton grew up in suburban Auckland. Her poetry and prose have been published in New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia and online. She holds an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Morton has accrued many literary acknowledgements for her work, and her previous collection of poetry, This is Your Real Name (OUP, 2020), was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The manuscript of Naming the Beasts was shortlisted for the 2021 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.
- [Alan Roddick](https://oup.nz/book-author/alan-roddick/) - Alan Roddick was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1952. He is the literary executor for Charles Brasch and has edited numerous books including Charles Brasch: Selected Poems (OUP, 2015). Next is Roddick’s third book of poetry: his first collection, The Eye Corrects, was published in 1967 and was followed 49 years later with Getting It Right (OUP, 2016).
- [Michael Steven](https://oup.nz/book-author/michael-steven/) - Michael Steven is an Auckland-based poet. He was awarded a Creative New Zealand Todd New Writers Bursary in 2018, and his collection Walking to Jutland Street (OUP, 2018) was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award For Poetry 2019. His collection The Lifers (OUP, 2020) was in the Listener Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020. Night School is Steven’s third collection of poetry.
- [Rogelio Guedea](https://oup.nz/book-author/rogelio-guedea/) - Mexican-born poet and novelist Rogelio Guedea is the award-winning author of more than 40 books. His poetry collection Kora was awarded the prestigious Spanish Premio Adonáis de Poesía in 2008, and in 2013 his novel, El crimen de Los Tepames (Mondadori), was one of the top five best-selling novels in Mexico. His most recent poetry collections, both with English translations by Roger Hickin, are Si no te hubieras ido / If only you hadn’t gone (2014) and Punctuation (2018). He was the coordinator of the University of Otago Spanish Programme and Associate Professor of Spanish from 2008–2016. Rogelio is currently based in Wellington and is the director of The New Zealand Hispanic Press.
- [Siobhan Harvey](https://oup.nz/book-author/siobhan-harvey/) - Siobhan Harvey is the author of nine books, including Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award–winning Cloudboy (OUP, 2014), the Ockham New Zealand Book Award–longlisted Ghosts (OUP, 2021), and, as co-editor, the bestselling Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit, 2014). She won the 2023 Landfall Tauraka Essay Competition and has received the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, the Kathleen Grattan Award, the Robert Burns Poetry Prize and the Write Well Award (US). Harvey is a senior lecturer in creative writing at AUT.
- [James Norcliffe](https://oup.nz/book-author/james-norcliffe/) - James Norcliffe is a poet, children’s writer, novelist and editor. He was awarded the 2022 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry and has published 11 poetry collections, most recently Letter to ’Oumuamua (Otago University Press, 2023). He is also the author of 14 novels for young readers, notably the award-winning Loblolly Boy series, and his first adult novel, The Frog Prince (RHNZ Vintage), was published in 2022. Norcliffe has a long association with the Canterbury Poets’ Collective, takahē, the ReDraft anthologies and Flash Frontier.
- [James Courage](https://oup.nz/book-author/james-courage/) - James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries – Frank Sargeson, Eric McCormick, Charles Brasch and Bill Pearson. A Way of Love, published in 1959, was the first gay novel written by a New Zealander, and some of his other seven novels (including Fires in the Distance and The Call Home) contain queer characters. Between 1920 and 1963, Courage confided his innermost thoughts to a private diary. He wrote about leaving New Zealand, the men he met in London’s streets, and forging friendships in the literary scene. He was an evocative chronicler of landscapes and indoor settings: life on long ocean voyages, air raid shelters during the war, and the psychiatrist’s clinic at a time when society was deeply ambivalent about homosexuality. Courage recorded his personal triumphs and struggles with an engaging honesty, a lively intelligence, and a whimsical sense of humour.
- [Lyndall Ryan](https://oup.nz/book-author/lyndall-ryan/) - Lyndall Ryan, AO, FAHA (1943–2024) was an Australian academic and historian. She held positions in Australian studies and women’s studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and was the foundation professor of Australian studies and head of the School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle from 1998 to 2005. She was later a conjoint professor in the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle.
- [Caren Wilton](https://oup.nz/book-author/caren-wilton/) - Caren Wilton is an oral historian, writer and editor, and was the recipient of three New Zealand Oral History Awards for her series of interviews with sex workers (on which My Body, My Business is based). An editor at Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand for almost nine years, she is also a freelance book editor. She was the coordinator of an oral history project focusing on Upper Hutt in the 1960s for Upper Hutt City Library in 2015–16, and is the author of short- fiction collection The Heart Sutra (Otago University Press, 2003). She lives in the Wairarapa.
- [Pamela Wood](https://oup.nz/book-author/pamela-wood/) - Pamela Wood is a retired academic, registered nurse and independent historian. She taught in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes and postgraduate health programmes for 30 years and is the author of Dirt: Filth and decay in a New World Arcadia.
- [Jane McCabe](https://oup.nz/book-author/jane-mccabe/) - Jane McCabe is a Melbourne-based historian. In 2007 she visited Kalimpong seeking information about her grandmother. Ten years and one PhD later, she published Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial families, interrupted (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). The book won the ARANZ Ian Wards Prize, and the NZHA Erik Olssen Prize. From 2014 to 2019, Jane was a lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is currently writing the monograph from her Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded project ‘Splitting up the farm? A cross-cultural history of land and inheritance in Aotearoa’. In the process, extraordinary personal stories and many fabulous photographs have come to light. Jane McCabe here tells this compelling and little-known New Zealand story, in pictures.
- [Jenny Coleman](https://oup.nz/book-author/jenny-coleman/) - Jenny Coleman is an associate professor in feminist history and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. She was head of the Women’s Studies Programme at Massey 2000–11 and coordinating editor of the Women’s Studies Journal 2004–09. She has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century New Zealand women’s history topics, and two earlier books through Otago University Press: Mad or Bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock (2010) and Polly Plum: A firm and earnest woman’s advocate – Mary Ann Colclough 1836–1885 (2017).
- [Brent Coutts](https://oup.nz/book-author/brent-coutts/) - Brent Coutts is a University of Otago graduate living in Auckland. He is the author of Protest in New Zealand (2013), Re-Reading the Rainbow (2017) and Pacific History (2018), which focus on themes of social justice, identity and decolonisation. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society Teaching Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi, which allowed him to begin research into New Zealand soldiers’ experiences during World War II.
- [Jared Davidson](https://oup.nz/book-author/jared-davidson/) - An archivist by day and labour historian by night, Jared Davidson is an award-winning writer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Remains to Be Seen and Sewing Freedom, a curator of the exhibition He Tohu, and an active committee member of the Labour History Project. Through social biography and history from below, Jared explores the lives of people often overlooked by traditional histories – from working-class radicals of the early twentieth century to prison convicts of the nineteenth.
- [Jillian Sullivan](https://oup.nz/book-author/jillian-sullivan/) - Jillian Sullivan lives and writes in the Ida Valley, Central Otago. Her 12 published books include creative non-fiction, novels, memoir, short story collections and poetry. She teaches writing workshops in New Zealand and the US. Once the drummer in a women’s indie pop band, her passion now is natural building and earth plastering. Her latest book is the memoir A Way Home, about building her own strawbale home (Potton and Burton, 2016).
- [Elspeth Sandys](https://oup.nz/book-author/elspeth-sandys/) - Elspeth Sandys has published nine novels, two collections of short stories and two memoirs. She has written extensively for the BBC and for RNZ as well as for TV and film. Her stage plays have been produced in the UK, the US and New Zealand. Elspeth lived for many years in the UK but has been back in her home country of New Zealand since 1990.
- [Stephanie Johnson](https://oup.nz/book-author/stephanie-johnson/) - Since the much-loved The Heart’s Wild Surf in 1996, Stephanie Johnson has published 11 more novels. She is a past winner of the Montana Book Award (for The Shag Incident), the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton and the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. She has also held the University of Auckland writers’ residency and several of her novels have been long-listed for the Impac Awards in Dublin. With Peter Wells, Stephanie founded the highly successful Auckland Writers Festival in 1998. Known also for her poetry, plays and short stories, Stephanie lives in Auckland. Her most recent novels are Jarulan by the River (HarperCollins 2017) and The Sisters’ Lover (Independent 2019) published under her pseudonym Lily Woodhouse.
- [Joanne Drayton](https://oup.nz/book-author/joanne-drayton/) - Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards, the subject of a 60 Minutes documentary, and a cover story in the New Zealand Listener. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime (2008) was a Christmas pick in the UK’s Independent newspaper in 2009. Joanne has written three other groundbreaking biographies. In 2007 she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 she received a prestigious Logan Nonfiction Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate New York. She lives in Auckland with her partner and three cats.
- [Annabel Cooper](https://oup.nz/book-author/annabel-cooper/) - Annabel Cooper is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work at the University of Otago. Her research covers a range of subjects in New Zealand cultural history. Her edition of Mary Lee’s The Not So Poor and her contributions to Sites of Gender: Women, men and modernity in southern Dunedin explored gender, place and poverty in nineteenth-century New Zealand, and she has written further about place in articles on films, suburbs and settler masculinity.
- [Priscilla Pitts](https://oup.nz/book-author/priscilla-pitts/) - Priscilla Pitts has had a long career writing about the visual arts, with a particular focus on contemporary New Zealand art. She is the author of Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture: themes and issues and a founding editor of Antic, a journal of arts, literature, theory and criticism. She was formerly director of Artspace (Auckland), the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth) and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Toitū Otago Settlers Museum. More recently she was General Manager Heritage Destinations at the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand), and these days freelances as a writer, exhibition curator and museum consultant.
- [Andrea Hotere](https://oup.nz/book-author/andrea-hotere/) - Andrea Hotere is a writer with a background in historical research and investigative journalism. She began her career at the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, before working at the BBC in London, and in New Zealand on various publications including the Sunday Star-Times and New Zealand Education Review. She has also written for magazines, researched and produced award- winning television documentaries and edited a book on architecture. She has a life-long interest in art, and lives in Auckland with her family.
- [Martin Edmond](https://oup.nz/book-author/martin-edmond/) - Martin Edmond was born in Ohakune, New Zealand, and lives in Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a lighting designer in theatre and for rock bands, and as a screenwriter in the film industry. He holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University and is the author of more than twenty books, most of which can be described, loosely, as works of non-fiction. The most recent was The Expatriates (Bridget Williams Books, 2017).
- [Helen Bones](https://oup.nz/book-author/helen-bones/) - Helen Bones is a New Zealander living in Australia, where she teaches history and has a research position with the Digital Humanities Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. She has written a number of articles for literary and historical journals, and contributed two chapters to Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library, eds Chris Jones and Bronwyn Matthews (Canterbury University Press, 2011).
- [Dan Davin](https://oup.nz/book-author/dan-davin/) - Dan Davin was a New Zealand Rhodes scholar who became Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Throughout his career, in his spare time, he wrote both fiction and works of memoir, from his war novel For the Rest of Their Lives (1947) and Southland novels Roads from Home (1949) and No Remittance (1959) to his collection of war stories The Salamander and the Fire (1986).
- [David Elliot](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-elliot/) - David Elliot is an author and illustrator of children’s books, based in Port Chalmers, Dunedin. He has won many awards for his work, including New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year in 2011 (with Margaret Mahy) for The Moon & Farmer McPhee. Pigtails the Pirate won Best Picture Book in the 2003 awards. As well as writing and illustrating his own books, David has illustrated numerous books by others, including New Zealand authors Joy Cowley, Jack Lasenby and Margaret Mahy; UK writer Brian Jacques (the Redwall series), and US writers T.A. Barron (Great Tree of Avalon series) and John Flanagan (Ranger’s Apprentice and The Brotherband Chronicles). Henry’s Map was selected by the prestigious School Library Journal in the US for its Best Books list in 2013. In 2011 David received the inaugural Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award, and in 2014 the Storylines Margaret Mahy Award.
- [Jonathan West](https://oup.nz/book-author/jonathan-west/) - Jonathan West was born and raised in and around Dunedin. He worked as an historian at the Waitangi Tribunal for several years and more recently joined the Office of Treaty Settlements. Jonathan’s publications include contributions to Wild Heart: The possibility of wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand (Otago), The Lives of Colonial Objects (Otago, 2015) and New Zealand and the Sea (BWB, forthcoming). He lives with his wife Kate and their children in Lower Hutt.
- [Neville Peat](https://oup.nz/book-author/neville-peat/) - Neville Peat (1947–2026) was an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer whose work explored the landscapes, wildlife and environmental history of Aotearoa New Zealand. His books also ranged across history and geography. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards Natural Heritage category in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded New Zealand’s largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. He lived on the Otago Peninsula, close to the albatrosses, penguins and sea lions that featured in his writing.
- [Richard Cuthbert](https://oup.nz/book-author/richard-cuthbert/) - Richard Cuthbert grew up in the English countryside and had a childhood fascination with nature and a desire to follow in the conservation footsteps of Gerald Durrell, David Bellamy and Sir Peter Scott. After obtaining a zoology degree in the UK and five years travelling in pursuit of mountains and conservation projects, he ended up in New Zealand and embarked on a PhD at the University of Otago studying Hutton’s shearwaters. His time in New Zealand forged a never-ceasing wonder for the Kaikoura Mountains and the unique species they contain. Since leaving New Zealand Richard has continued to work as a conservation biologist, studying species and places as varied as albatrosses on Tristan da Cunha, vultures in Nepal and India, and bandicoots in Papua New Guinea. He lives in Derbyshire with his wife and son.
- [Brian Patrick](https://oup.nz/book-author/brian-patrick/) - Brian Patrick is the co-author of several books on natural history and invertebrates, including Wild Central and Wild Fiordland (with Neville Peat), Butterflies of the South Pacific (with Hamish Patrick) and Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand (with Brian Parkinson). He has worked for the Department of Conservation, New Zealand, as a senior manager in museums, and now works as a scientist in an ecological consultancy in Christchurch.
- [Carolyn M. King](https://oup.nz/book-author/carolyn-m-king/) - Carolyn M. King is an international authority on the biology of mustelids and rodents. Her research experience ranges from native weasels at Oxford to introduced stoats, rats and mice in New Zealand, where official management of invasive predators has long been informed by her books, papers and university teaching. King recently co-edited a new edition of The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals (OUP, CSIRO).
- [David M. Forsyth](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-m-forsyth/) - David M. Forsyth is a Senior Research Scientist at the NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, NSW, Australia. In 1997 he completed his PhD on the ecology and management of Himalayan tahr and Alpine chamois in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Subsequently he has worked as a researcher in Canada, New Zealand and, since 2002, Australia. He maintains an active involvement in New Zealand mammalogy through collaborations with the Department of Conservation and Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research.
- [Hamish Patrick](https://oup.nz/book-author/hamish-patrick/) - Hamish Patrick could not escape butterflies and moths, as Brian’s son, and has assisted in the fieldwork for and writing of this book. He has completed his honours at Lincoln University and is working towards his PhD in 2013.
- [Roger Maaka](https://oup.nz/book-author/roger-maaka/) - Roger Maaka is Professor of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, and former Professor of Maori Studies at Canterbury University, New Zealand.
- [Augie Fleras](https://oup.nz/book-author/augie-fleras/) - Augie Fleras is Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
- [James Herries Beattie](https://oup.nz/book-author/james-herries-beattie/) - James Herries Beattie was bookkeeper, journalist, historian, ethnologist and bookseller. His early work included a multi-volume history of early settlers called, Pioneer Recollections (1909–1911) and an account of southern Māori traditions, placenames and history, published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society (1915–1922). His other work includes Tīkao Talks: ka taoka tapu o te ao kohatu / Treasures from the ancient world of the Māori (1939), Māori Lore of Lake, Alp and Fiord (1945), and Our Southernmost Māori: Their habitat, nature notes, problems and perplexities, controversial and conversational, further place names, antiquity of man in New Zealand (1954).
- [Margaret Pointer](https://oup.nz/book-author/margaret-pointer/) - Margaret Pointer is a graduate in history from Victoria University of Wellington and for many years taught at secondary school level. In 2015 Otago University Press published her Niue 1774–1974: 200 years of contact and change. Margaret lives in Wellington and visits Niue frequently.
- [Paul Moon](https://oup.nz/book-author/paul-moon/) - DR Paul Moon is Professor of History at Auckland University of Technology, where his research focuses on nineteenth-century New Zealand. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London, and he was also recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Paul has published biographies of Governors William Hobson and Robert FitzRoy, and of Ngapuhi chief Hone Heke. He has also written several other books on nineteenth-century New Zealand history, including Encounters, which was shortlisted in 2013 for the international Ernest Scott Prize in History. He has worked as a historical adviser for several television documentaries, both local productions and for the BBC, and is a frequent media commentator.
- [Richard Walter](https://oup.nz/book-author/richard-walter/) - Richard Walter is Professor of Archaeology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago. In his 30-year career he has authored 50 journal articles, 24 book chapters and six books. His research is field and laboratory based and strives to integrate indigenous and scientific knowledge to construct stronger and more nuanced models of the past. He has ongoing projects in New Zealand, the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands.
- [Peter Sheppard](https://oup.nz/book-author/peter-sheppard/) - Peter Sheppard is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Auckland. In his 30-year career he has authored 41 journal articles, 39 book chapters and three books, the most recent article being ‘Detecting early tattooing in the Pacific region through experimental use-wear and residue analyses of obsidian tools’, (with Nina Kononenko and Robin Torrence), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 147–63.
- [Maire Leadbeater](https://oup.nz/book-author/maire-leadbeater/) - Maire Leadbeater grew up in a politically active family, where campaigning for peace and many other causes came with the territory. A former Auckland city and regional councillor, she spent her working life as a social worker, but is now retired and finding more time for writing and for activism. For the past 25 years Maire has campaigned for freedom for East Timor and West Papua. In 2017 she was awarded the Order of Timor-Leste by the Timorese Government. Her previous books are Negligent Neighbour: New Zealand’s collusion with the invasion and occupation of Timor Leste (2006) and Peace, Power and Politics: How New Zealand became nuclear free, published by Otago University Press in 2013. Maire has two adult children and five grandchildren.
- [Lisa Warrington](https://oup.nz/book-author/lisa-warrington/) - Lisa Warrington is an associate professor in theatre studies at the University of Otago. She has directed over 125 productions, including 30 for Dunedin’s professional company the Fortune Theatre. She has commissioned new works and served as director or dramaturg with Playmarket (the national playwrights’ agency) on a number of new play workshops. She co-edited Playlunch, a volume of short plays that is now in its second edition (OUP), and has published a number of articles on New Zealand theatre and colonial theatre history.
- [David O'Donnell](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-odonnell/) - David O’Donnell is an associate professor in theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. He has directed many premieres of New Zealand plays, including Heat by Lynda Chanwai-Earle and West End Girls by Ken Duncum. In 2004 he was voted director of the year in the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for directing David Edgar’s Albert Speer, and in 2015 he won a Po`okela directing award from the Hawai`i State Theatre Council. David has published widely on New Zealand theatre, including co-editing (with Marc Maufort) Performing Aotearoa (2007), and has been editor of the Playmarket New Zealand Play Series since 2010.
- [Alexandra C. Gunn](https://oup.nz/book-author/alexandra-c-gunn/) - Alexandra Gunn works at the University of Otago College of Education teaching and researching in early childhood education, inclusion, assessment, and teacher education. Formerly an early childhood teacher, Alex’s work interests centre on social justice; in particular on teachers’ beliefs and practices and how these reflect, produce and disrupt taken-for-granted norms. She previously co-edited Te Aotūroa Tātaki: Inclusive early childhood education (NZCER Press).
- [Lee A. Smith](https://oup.nz/book-author/lee-a-smith/) - Lee Smith finished her PhD (Education) at the University of Otago in 2012. Since then she has undertaken a number of research roles at the University of Otago and in the wider community. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, youth and spatiality. Lee has begun publishing in a number of leading research journals.
- [Helen May](https://oup.nz/book-author/helen-may/) - Helen May, now an emeritus professor, is a former Dean of the University of Otago College of Education. She began her career as a primary school teacher in the mid-1960s, worked in childcare in the 1970s, and began tertiary teaching in the 1980s. During the early 1990s she worked with Margaret Carr on the development of Te Whāriki, New Zealand’s first national curriculum for early childhood education. In 1995 she was appointed to the first New Zealand professorial chair in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University Wellington and in 2005 she shifted to the University of Otago. She has published nine books as sole author on the history and policy of early years education.
- [Ken Gorbey](https://oup.nz/book-author/ken-gorbey/) - Ken Gorbey was the director of Waikato Museum 1969–83, then played many roles in founding Te Papa. He was Project Director and Deputy President of the Jewish Museum Berlin 1999–2002. Since 1984 he has as run his own consultancy, working around the world on museum, cultural and tourism projects. Ken Gorbey lives in Wellington.
- [Ronald W. Jones](https://oup.nz/book-author/ronald-w-jones/) - Ronald W. Jones (1939-2025) was an obstetrician and gynaecologist and former clinical professor at the University of Auckland. He was a widely published international authority on lower genital tract pre-cancer and cancer. For over 30 years he served on a range of national and international committees addressing the natural history, prevention and management of these cancers. He was a past president of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease and chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Federation of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy.
- [Hamish Wilson](https://oup.nz/book-author/hamish-wilson/) - Hamish Wilson is a senior lecturer in General Practice at the University of Otago. His teaching portfolio includes postgraduate programmes for family doctors as well as courses for undergraduate students on community-based healthcare. He has taught and published on the doctor–patient relationship, undergraduate medical education and the philosophy of medicine.
- [Wayne Cunningham](https://oup.nz/book-author/wayne-cunningham/) - Wayne Cunningham is a senior lecturer in General Practice at the University of Otago and also works clinically as a rural GP. He teaches postgraduate programmes for family doctors including medical education, research design and philosophy of practice. He has published widely on the impact of complaints on doctors and is active in medico-legal organisations.
- [Philipp Schorch](https://oup.nz/book-author/philipp-schorch/) - Philipp Schorch is a professor of museum anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, and honorary fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia.
- [Diane Brown](https://oup.nz/book-author/diane-brown/) - Diane Brown is a novelist, memoirist and poet who runs her own creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Her publications include two collections of poetry (Before the Divorce We Go to Disneyland and Learning to Lie Together), a novel (If the Tongue Fits), a verse novel (Eight Stages of Grace), a travel memoir (Liars and Lovers), a prose/poetic memoir (Here Comes Another Vital Moment) and a poetic family memoir (Taking My Mother to the Opera). In 2013 she was made a Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to writing and education.
- [Victor Billot](https://oup.nz/book-author/victor-billot/) - Victor Billot was born in Dunedin in 1972. He has worked in communications, publishing and the maritime industry. In 2020 he was commissioned by the Newsroom website to write a series of political satires in verse. His poems have been displayed in the Reykjavik City Hall and in Antarctica.
- [Fiona Farrell](https://oup.nz/book-author/fiona-farrell/) - Fiona Farrell has published poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. Uniquely among New Zealand writers, she has received awards in all genres. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards and has been widely anthologised. Her first novel, The Skinny Louie Book, won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Three later novels have been shortlisted for that award, and five have been longlisted for the prestigious International Dublin IMPAC Award. In 2013 she received the Michael King Award to write twinned books prompted by the Christchurch earthquakes and the city’s reconstruction. The non-fiction work, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, was shortlisted for the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards. In 2018 she edited Best New Zealand Poems for the International Institute of Modern Letters. Farrell has received numerous awards, including the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and the ONZM for Services to Literature. She made Dunedin home in 2018.
- [Charles Brasch](https://oup.nz/book-author/charles-brasch/) - Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal Landfall, and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant impact on the development of a literary and artistic culture in New Zealand. His poetry continues to be published in anthologies today, and he provided substantial philanthropic support to the arts in New Zealand, including by establishing the Robert Burns Fellowship, the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, by providing financial support to New Zealand writers and artists during his lifetime, and by bequeathing his extensive collection of books and artwork in his will to the Hocken Library and the University of Otago.
- [Cilla McQueen](https://oup.nz/book-author/cilla-mcqueen/) - Cilla McQueen MNZM is a poet, teacher and artist, and a three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. She received an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Otago in 2008 and was New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2011. In 2010 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (Poetry). In 2020 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a poet. Cilla lives in Bluff, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.
- [Michael Harlow](https://oup.nz/book-author/michael-harlow/) - Michael Harlow is one of New Zealand’s leading poets. He has published eleven books of poetry, including Sweeping the Courtyard, Selected Poems (2014), Heart, Absolutely I Can (2014), Cassandra’s Daughter (2005, 2006), The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap (a finalist in the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry), and Take a Risk, Trust Your Language, Make a Poem (awarded the PEN/NZ Best First Book of Prose, 1986). He has received many prestigious awards and held a range of residencies, including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and the Burns Fellowship. His poetry collection Nothing for it But to Sing won the Kathleen Grattan Award for an unpublished poetry manuscript and was published by Otago University Press in 2016. In 2018 he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.
- [Linda Tuhiwai Smith](https://oup.nz/book-author/linda-tuhiwai-smith/) - Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith is Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori at the University of Waikato, as well as Dean of the School of Māori and Pacific Development and a professor of Education and Māori Development. The first edition of this book has become a seminal text in indigenous studies. Her other publications canvass a wide range of academic disciplines. She has worked with a number of Māori scholars, most notably her husband Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith. She has been President of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission, a member of the Health Research Council and Chair of the Māori Health Committee, Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Marsden Council and member of the Constitutional Review Panel. She has also been active in establishing Māori educational initiatives from early childhood to higher education, was an inaugural co-Director of the Māori Research Centre of Excellence, Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga, and is currently the Director of the Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato. Linda is a daughter, a sister and cousin, a mother and aunt and a grandmother in an extended family.
- [Edward Duyker](https://oup.nz/book-author/edward-duyker/) - Edward Duyker was born in Melbourne to a Dutch father and a Mauritian mother. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1981 before working as an intelligence officer with the Department of Defence. In 1984 he settled in Sydney as an independent historian, and also served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Mauritius in New South Wales 1996–2002. Edward Duyker has published 17 books, many dealing with early Australian, New Zealand and Pacific exploration and natural science. These include Citizen Labillardière (2003), a biography of the naturalist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière, which won the NSW Premier’s General History Prize in 2004; and François Péron (2006), which won the Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize in 2007. In 2000 Duyker was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. He was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government in 2003 and the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2004. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney.
- [Laurence Simmons](https://oup.nz/book-author/laurence-simmons/) - Laurence Simmons is Professor of Film Studies in Media and Communication at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively on Italian and New Zealand film.
- [Katherine Mansfield](https://oup.nz/book-author/katherine-mansfield/) - Kathleen Mansfield (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
- [Brian Wilkins](https://oup.nz/book-author/brian-wilkins/) - Brian Wilkins retired in 1988 from a career lecturing in pharmaceutical chemistry. He has been a keen tramper and climber all his life. Brian is the father of Damien Wilkins, Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
- [Wendy Parkins](https://oup.nz/book-author/wendy-parkins/) - Wendy Parkins, formerly a professor of Victorian Literature, has taught at universities in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. She has written three scholarly monographs and dozens of academic articles and book chapters. Her previous books include Slow Living (co-authored with Geoffrey Craig) and Jane Morris: The burden of history. Every morning, so far, I’m alive is her first published creative work. Wendy lives in Matakana, New Zealand.
- [Donald Kerr](https://oup.nz/book-author/donald-kerr/) - Donald Kerr is Special Collections Librarian and co-Director of the University of Otago Centre for the Book. He is passionate about books and enjoys long-term projects in book history, especially the history of collecting and the formation of private libraries. He is the editor of Enduring Legacy: Charles Brasch, Patron, Poet & Collector (Otago University Press, 2003) and has also written on the history of duelling: The Smell of Powder: A history of duelling in New Zealand (Random House, 2006). He has studied the collecting of Sir George Grey, Henry Shaw, Frank W. Reed and Esmond de Beer, and is currently working on a book about 12 prominent New Zealand book collectors.
- [Bridie Lonie](https://oup.nz/book-author/bridie-lonie/) - Bridie Lonie is course coordinator in Art History and Theory, at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
- [Marilynn Webb](https://oup.nz/book-author/marilynn-webb/) - Marilynn Webb was a senior lecturer in printmaking, Otago Polytechnic School of Art. She was made Emeritus Principal Lecturer in 2004.
- [Michael Shackleton](https://oup.nz/book-author/michael-shackleton/) - Michael Shackleton, OBE, (1927-2015) was an innovative general surgeon who in one swoop raised the level of bowel cancer detection in New Zealand. He imported the first colonoscopy apparatus and it was installed in Dunedin. The results were immediately evident and made the existing sigmoidoscopy equipment obsolete. He was awarded the Order of National Merit, South Vietnam, the New Zealand General Service Medial (Vietnam) and the New Zealand Operational Service Medal (Vietnam).
- [Ann Thwaite](https://oup.nz/book-author/ann-thwaite/) - Ann Thwaite was born in London, the daughter of two New Zealanders. She was at school in Tirau and Wellington during the war, returning to England to complete her education at Queen Elizabeth’s, Barnet and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has lived in Tokyo, Benghazi and Nashville, Tennessee and has lectured in many countries. She won the Whitbread Prize for the best biography of 1990 (A.A. Milne: His life), is an Oxford D.Litt and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is now settled in Norfolk, England, with her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite. They have four daughters and ten grandchildren.
- [Freya Klier](https://oup.nz/book-author/freya-klier/) - Born in 1950 in Dresden, Germany, Freya Klier went into a children’s home at the age of three after her father’s arrest. In 1968 when her attempt to flee East Germany failed, she was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. After an early release, she became a co-founder of the GDR peace movement in 1980 and was subsequently banned from practising her profession. In 1988 she was arrested along with other civil rights activists and stripped of her citizenship. She lives today in Berlin as an author and film director. She has written Die Kaninchen von Ravensbrück: Medizinsche Experimente in der NS Zeit / The Guineapigs of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments on Jewish women in the Nazi era (1994) among other books on wartime Germany.
- [Murray C. Meikle](https://oup.nz/book-author/murray-c-meikle/) - Murray C. Meikle is Emeritus Professor of Orthodontics, King’s College London Dental Institute at Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals (GKT), University of London, and a former Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Since retiring from GKT in 2003, he has been Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Otago and a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.
- [R.J. Bunce](https://oup.nz/book-author/r-j-bunce/) - R.J (JO) Bunce has held teaching and administrative positions in most levels of the education sector, as well as public relations and liaison positions for government departments, Otago Polytechnic, the University of Otago and the Royal New Zealand Navy. Later in life he gravitated towards historical study and research, and this book is the result.
- [Alan Mark](https://oup.nz/book-author/alan-mark/) - Plant ecologist Sir Alan Mark has spent most of his life researching the ecology and sustainable management of indigenous ecosystems. He has served on several official organisations, including Manapouri–Te Anau Lake Guardians, National Parks and Reserves Authority, Conservation Authority, Otago Conservation Board, Land Settlement Board, Mountain Lands Committee and Fiordland Marine Guardians. He is a distinguished life member of the Forest & Bird Protection Society, a life member of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of America, an honorary member of the NZ Alpine Club, a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ and recipient of the society’s Hutton Medal and Fleming Environmental Award. He received a CBE in 1989, a DCNZM in 2001 and was knighted in 2009 for his services to conservation. He received an honorary DSc from the University of Otago in 2014.
- [Diane Comer](https://oup.nz/book-author/diane-comer/) - Diane Comer was born in Italy and grew up in the Dominican Republic, Belgium and the United States. She studied non-fiction writing at the University of Iowa and received her PhD from the University of Canterbury. Her essays have been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre and elsewhere, and were noted in the Best American Essays series. Diane lived in the US and Sweden before migrating with her husband and two children to New Zealand in 2007. She teaches at Victoria University of Wellington.
- [Jenny Powell](https://oup.nz/book-author/jenny-powell/) - Jenny Powell is a Dunedin creative writing teacher and poet, with eight published volumes of poetry: Sweet Banana Wax Peppers (HeadworX, 1998), Hats (HeadworX, 2000), Double Jointed (with 10 other poets of her choice) (Inkweed, 2003), Four French Horns (HeadworX, 2004), Locating the Madonna (with Anna Jackson) (Seraph Press, 2004), Viet Nam: A poem journey (HeadworX, 2010), Ticket Home: 30 poems (Cold Hub Press, 2012) and Trouble (Cold Hub Press, 2014).
- [Michael Jackson](https://oup.nz/book-author/michael-jackson/) - US-resident New Zealand writer Michael Jackson is the author of 35 works of anthropology, poetry, fiction and memoir, and is internationally renowned for his work in the field of existential anthropology. In New Zealand he is best known for his poetry and creative non-fiction. Latitudes of Exile was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1976, and Wall won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1981. His most recent books include Harmattan: A philosophical fiction (2015), Selected Poems (2016), and The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in philosophical, historical and ethnographic time (2018).
- [John Pratt](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-pratt/) - Professor John Pratt has spent most of his academic career at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington. His research on comparative penology and the history of imprisonment has given him an international reputation, with invitations to lecture on his work at universities in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Sir Leon Radzinowicz Prize by the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology, and the following year he took up a one-year fellowship at the Straus Institute for Advanced Studies in Law and Justice, New York University. In 2012 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand and in 2013 he was awarded the society’s Mason Durie Medal, given ‘to the nation’s pre-emiment social scientist’.
- [Diana Brown](https://oup.nz/book-author/diana-brown/) - Diana Brown graduated with an MA in history with distinction from Otago University in 2006, and was awarded a grant by the New Zealand History Research Trust Fund to write this book. She has lived overseas since 2008, working at writing, teaching and curriculum development, editing and translation. She speaks several European languages.
- [Paul Star](https://oup.nz/book-author/paul-star/) - Paul Star was born in England in 1950 and has lived in New Zealand since 1972. He holds a master’s degree in European history and English literature from Cambridge University. He gained a further master’s and a doctorate from the University of Otago, focusing on nineteenth-century New Zealand environmental history. As a postdoctoral fellow at Otago he contributed to the Marsden-funded Empires of Grass project, which studied the transition of much of New Zealand from native forest to exotic pasture. Paul has published 30 articles in New Zealand, Australian and British journals, and wrote the chapter on environmental history in the new Oxford History of New Zealand. He lives and gardens on the Otago Peninsula.
- [Nancy Swarbrick](https://oup.nz/book-author/nancy-swarbrick/) - Nancy Swarbrick is a Wellington historian who has spent most of her career working on major reference projects, notably The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Creature Comforts was inspired by her interest in social and cultural aspects of New Zealand’s past, particularly changing attitudes towards animals. Like many people, she grew up in a household with pets, and now enjoys the company of a feisty black cat called Guido.
- [Joel L. Schiff](https://oup.nz/book-author/joel-l-schiff/) - Joel L. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA and has a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He spent his career at the University of Auckland and written three books on various mathematical subjects. He has been a successful part-time asteroid hunter and is the founder/publisher of an international journal on meteorites. Dr Schiff ‘s lifelong interest in art has led to him taking up the brush himself in recent years. He first encountered the work of Grace Joel in 1981 at the Auckland City Art Gallery. The interest sparked then never died, and grew to an obsession over the decades. This book on her life and work is the result.
- [Julie Leibrich](https://oup.nz/book-author/julie-leibrich/) - Julie Leibrich is the author of 11 books – four poetry collections, four children’s books and three non-fiction works on mental health, and on crime. She has been awarded several grants and prizes, including the Todd New Writer’s Bursary, the Joy Cowley Award and the Legal Research Foundation Special Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and she has given invited talks in several countries. Born in England in 1947, Julie came to New Zealand in 1974. She worked for 20 years as a research psychologist before becoming one of New Zealand’s first Mental Health Commissioners.
- [Diana Noonan](https://oup.nz/book-author/diana-noonan/) - Diana Noonan is a freelance journalist and author of many highly acclaimed books for young people. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing. Diana lives on the remote Catlins coast in southeast Otago with her husband Keith Olsen, an illustrator. Her interests include environmental projects, running, natural history and food gardening, and she often travels to far-flung parts of the globe in search of traditional horticultural practices. Women of the Catlins is her first social documentary.
- [Erik Olssen](https://oup.nz/book-author/erik-olssen/) - Erik Olssen ONZM taught at Otago University for 33 years and was Professor of History 1984–2001. He has published over 70 articles and chapters on American and New Zealand history and has also written several books. For over 20 years he directed the multi-disciplinary Caversham Project, the country’s largest investigation of urban social structure.
- [Stuart M. Lange](https://oup.nz/book-author/stuart-m-lange/) - Stuart M. Lange teaches history as a senior lecturer in the School of Theology, Ministry and Mission at Laidlaw College in Auckland. His PhD is from the University of Otago.
- [Kristyn Harman](https://oup.nz/book-author/kristyn-harman/) - Kristyn Harman is a New Zealander living in Australia. She is the author of Aboriginal Convicts, which won the Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels Award for convict history in 2014. Kristyn studied history at Massey University and undertook doctoral research at the University of Tasmania where she now lectures in the School of Humanities. Her expertise spans topics across the Tasman Sea and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, largely focusing on the Australasian colonies and the British Empire. Cleansing the Colony is her second book.
- [Jenifer Roberts](https://oup.nz/book-author/jenifer-roberts/) - Jenifer Roberts is an English historian and direct descendant of FitzGerald. With access to sources previously inaccessible to researchers, she provides new information about one of our most outstanding colonists and his equally talented wife. Together, they personified the pioneer spirit of 19th-century New Zealand, a spirit reinvoked today as the people of Christchurch rebuild their city.
- [Rebecca Lenihan](https://oup.nz/book-author/rebecca-lenihan/) - Rebecca Lenihan completed her undergraduate degree and her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. Her doctoral thesis, creating a demographic profile of New Zealand’s Scots migrants, was part of a larger research project investigating the Scots in New Zealand funded by the Royal Society Marsden Fund of New Zealand. Between 2011 and 2013 Rebecca worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Guelph, Canada, and she is currently (2015–18) a post-doctoral fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Rebecca is the author of several articles and book chapters, and co-author of Unpacking the Kists (McGill Queen’s University Press/Otago University Press, 2013).
- [Helen Leach](https://oup.nz/book-author/helen-leach/) - Helen Leach ONZM (1945–2026) was an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago. Her research explored the history of food, cooking and kitchens in New Zealand. Her book The Pavlova Story traced the origins of the pavlova. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
- [Mary Browne](https://oup.nz/book-author/mary-browne/) - Mary Browne is a leading food writer who updated and photographed twelve classic pavlova recipes for The Pavlova Story.
- [Raelene Inglis](https://oup.nz/book-author/raelene-inglis/) - Raelene Inglis is a researcher in food history. Her earlier investigations into Christmas cakes with Helen created the database from which this book has grown.
- [Angela McCarthy](https://oup.nz/book-author/angela-mccarthy/) - Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago where she teaches migration history, Scottish history, and Irish history. She is the author/editor of seven books on Irish and Scottish migration, English migration, and migration and mental health. She is currently writing a biography of James Taylor, the ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. Her most recent publication was Far from ‘Home’: The English in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2012), co-edited with Lyndon Fraser.
- [Lyn McKinnon](https://oup.nz/book-author/lyn-mckinnon/) - During a dual career in education and journalism, Lyn McKinnon taught English and communications at secondary and tertiary level. She was awarded a Woolf Fisher fellowship for teaching, has worked for a number of publications and also run a bookshop. After retiring from teaching, she wrote a Centennial history of Amuri Area School, then served as an editor for the New Zealand Rural Press and contributing editor for The Deer Farmer, receiving several national journalism awards in the process. After retiring (again) she worked as a freelancer. Following her husband’s death in the Nurse Maude Hospice, Christchurch, she retired (for the last time!) and became a volunteer writer with the Nurse Maude Biography Service.
- [Alison Clarke](https://oup.nz/book-author/alison-clarke/) - Alison Clarke was a nurse until she became sidetracked by history. She completed a PhD at Otago in 2003, and has worked at the Hocken Collections since. Her previous publications include Holiday Seasons: Christmas, New Year and Easter in nineteenth-century New Zealand (2007); A Living Tradition: A centennial history of Knox College, Dunedin (2009); and Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand (2012). She has lived for many years on Otago Peninsula, where she tries not to let the view distract her while writing.
- [Jim McAloon](https://oup.nz/book-author/jim-mcaloon/) - Jim McAloon is senior lecturer in history at Lincoln University, Canterbury. He has published widely in New Zealand labour, economic and social history. He is the co-author of Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand.
- [Hugh Morrison](https://oup.nz/book-author/hugh-morrison/) - Hugh Morrison is a senior lecturer in the College of Education at the University of Otago, where he has taught since 2008 in both initial teacher education and education studies programmes. Earlier he has variously been a high school teacher, youth worker and a contract history lecturer at the University of Waikato (where he is a research associate in the history programme). His research and writing has revolved around the comparative history of religion, missions and childhood across British world settings.
- [Ann Beaglehole](https://oup.nz/book-author/ann-beaglehole/) - Ann Beaglehole was born in Hungary and came to New Zealand with her parents in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. Her publications include A Small Price to Pay and Facing the Past (Allen and Unwin, 1988, 1990), about refugees from Nazism settling in New Zealand.
- [Alison Glenny](https://oup.nz/book-author/alison-glenny/) - Alison Glenny was born in Christchurch, and currently lives in Paekākāriki. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington, a postgraduate certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury, and has taught creative writing at Whitireia New Zealand. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, and online.
- [Jennifer Compton](https://oup.nz/book-author/jennifer-compton/) - Born in New Zealand, resident in Australia, with literary achievements in both countries, Jennifer Compton is a truly trans-Tasman writer. Two recent residencies in New Zealand, at the Randell Cottage in 2008 and as Visiting Literary Artist at Massey University in 2010, have enabled her to spend time in her home city of Wellington, find out new things about her homeland, examine her roots and reflect on life. Two previous residencies in Italy, at the Whiting Library Studio in Rome 2006 and the Ligurian Study Centre, Bogliasco 2007, produced another kind of reflection on time and place, leading Kathleen Grattan Award judge Vincent O’Sullivan to comment about this collection: ‘It is a volume that sustains a questing, warmly sceptical mind’s engagement with wherever it is, whatever it takes in, and carries the constant drive to say it right. This is a complete book of poetry, coherent, gathering its parts to arrive at a cast of mind, a distinctive voice, far more than simply adding one good poem to another.’
- [Leigh Davis](https://oup.nz/book-author/leigh-davis/) - Leigh Davis (1955–2009) was born in Wanganui and completed an MA Hons in English at Auckland University. Further study at Victoria University led to a career in business and the founding of his private equity firm Jump Capital. His writing career got off to a dramatic start in 1983 when he co-edited the highly innovative magazine AND with Alex Calder and Roger Horrocks, founded Jack Books, and published his first volume of poetry, Willy’s Gazette, which won Best First Book of Poetry in the New Zealand Book Awards. As a poet, Davis went on to create a series of book-length works that were ambitious and innovative, with an unusual physical form that was an extension of their content. He was increasingly involved in collaborations with other artists. In the late 1990s, he produced a major visual installation, Station of Earth-Bound Ghosts, and published a related book Te Tangi a te Matuhi. In 2000 came a collection of poetry and visual art, General Motors, that is available as both a physical and a virtual book on the www.jackbooks.com website. A trilogy, The Book of Hours, followed in 2001, also published as a physical and virtual book. Anarchy, a multi-media text presented in 2006 at the Starkwhite Gallery, was later developed as a book under the title of Nameless (forthcoming). A Trustee of the Arts Foundation, Leigh Davis maintained strong interests in literature and the visual arts. He also gave talks, wrote essays and published widely as a critic.
- [Malcolm McKinnon](https://oup.nz/book-author/malcolm-mckinnon/) - Malcolm McKinnon has had a lifetime career in New Zealand history. He taught for many years at Victoria University of Wellington and has also worked on a number of government-sponsored historical projects. He was the general editor of the award-winning New Zealand Historical Atlas (1997). His own authored works include Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840–2000 (AUP, 2003) and Asian Cities: Globalization, urbanization and nation-building (2011). He has written extensively for Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand, and was a contributor to the Royal Society’s report on the 2013 New Zealand census, Our Futures: Te Pae Tawhiti (2014).
- [Conon Fraser](https://oup.nz/book-author/conon-fraser/) - Historian Conon Fraser‘s earlier books include Beyond the Roaring Forties: New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands (1986) and the edited volume Enderby Settlement Diaries (1999). He was also a much­ published freelance journalist and short­ story writer, and a director/producer/ writer of numerous television and film documentaries including the award­-winning Coal Valley, Children of the Mist, The Kauri and Beyond the Roaring Forties. Conon passed away as this book was going to press.
- [Jessica Beever](https://oup.nz/book-author/jessica-beever/) - Jessica Beever, née Spragg, has Pākeha and Māori (Ngāti Toa, Te Ati Awa and Ngāti Mutunga) ancestry. She has degrees in Botany (BSc and MSc) from the University of Auckland, and a PhD in Plant Science from the University of Leeds, UK. As a frequent participant in the John Child Bryophyte Workshops from their inception in 1983, a member of the Department of Conservation’s expert panel on threatened bryophytes and a member of the Offshore Islands Research Group, she has specialised in the documentation of New Zealand’s mosses, and has stimulated the resurgence of interest in these small plants. An endemic moss genus, Beeveria, has been named in her honour. Currently she is a Research Associate of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, working on the Flora of New Zealand: Mosses.
- [Peter Hoar](https://oup.nz/book-author/peter-hoar/) - Dr Peter Hoar has taught radio and media history at Auckland University of Technology for 20 years. Before joining AUT he worked in radio, television and journalism, and is also a qualified librarian. His research interests are in the field of sound studies, particularly in history, listening practices and technology. He regularly contributes concert reviews to Radio New Zealand Concert’s arts programme Upbeat as well as documentaries on composers and music. Peter is a passionate believer in the need for well-funded public media.
- [Iain Lonie](https://oup.nz/book-author/iain-lonie/) - Dunedin poet Iain Lonie (1932–1988), a Cambridge scholar who enjoyed an international reputation as a medical historian, died before his poetry was fully appreciated. He published five slim volumes but his style was not the one that dominated New Zealand poetry at the time. And yet, argues Damian Love in an essay in this volume, ‘To read him now is, for most of us, practically to discover a new resource.’
- [Kay McKenzie Cooke](https://oup.nz/book-author/kay-mckenzie-cooke/) - Kay McKenzie Cooke lives in Dunedin. Her first collection, Feeding the Dogs (OUP), won the Montana Book Awards Best First Book of Poetry in 2003. She followed this with Made for Weather (OUP, 2007). Kay is also an award-winning short story writer and keen photographer. … challenging and fresh … honest in her verse – Otago Daily Times
- [Richard Reeve](https://oup.nz/book-author/richard-reeve/) - Richard Reeve was born in Dunedin in 1976. He has published four previous collections of poems: Dialectic of Mud (Auckland University Press, 2001), The Life and the Dark (AUP, 2004), In Continents (AUP, 2008) and The Among (Maungatua Press, 2008). He has been awarded a number of prizes, including the 1998 MacMillan Brown Prize and the 2002/03 Todd Foundation Writer’s Bursary, and has had poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems in 2001, 2004 and 2007. Reeve’s poems have been widely published in literary journals such as London Magazine, Meanjin, Rattapallax, Southerly, Landfall and Glottis. He is a former university tutor and publishing editor, and currently works as a lawyer. He lives in Warrington in North Otago.
- [Karen Nairn](https://oup.nz/book-author/karen-nairn/) - Karen Nairn is a professor at the University of Otago College of Education.
- [Jane Higgins](https://oup.nz/book-author/jane-higgins/) - Jane Higgins is a senior researcher at Lincoln University.
- [Judith Sligo](https://oup.nz/book-author/judith-sligo/) - Judith Sligo works at the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit.
- [Robin Gauld](https://oup.nz/book-author/robin-gauld/) - Robin Gauld is Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, and Director of the Centre for Health Systems — that spans the School of Business and the Dunedin School of Medicine. His book The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009) was awarded first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. Other recent books include Continuity amid Chaos: Health Care Management and Delivery in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2003), Revolving Doors: New Zealand’s Health Reforms – the Continuing Saga (Institute of Policy Studies and Health Services Research Centre, 2009), The Age of Supported Independence co-authored with Beatrice Hale and Patrick Barrett (Springer, 2010), Health Care Systems in Asia and Europe co-edited with Christian Aspalter and Uchida Yasuo (Routledge, 2011), and Democratic Governance in Health, co-authored with Miriam Laugesen (Otago University Press, 2012).
- [Shaun Goldfinch](https://oup.nz/book-author/shaun-goldfinch/) - Shaun Goldfinch is Professor in the School of Management and Public Administration at the University of the South Pacific. He has previously taught at Nottingham University Business School, the American University of Sharja and at the Universities of Canterbury and Otago. He is the author of Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Communities (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and most recently Prometheus Assessed? Citation Analysis, Peer Review and Research Quality (Woodhead Publishing, 2012, with Kiyoshi Yamamoto)
- [Liz Lightfoot](https://oup.nz/book-author/liz-lightfoot/) - Liz Lightfoot is the daughter of an Anglican priest. She grew up in Liverpool and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of thirteen. Currently, she lives in Hamilton, where she works as a freelance editor and writer alongside being a mother of two. She is a liturgist within her church community and her work on this book was supervised by Dr John Paterson, Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Waikato’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
- [Lynn Jenner](https://oup.nz/book-author/lynn-jenner/) - Lynn Jenner is the author of Peat (OUP, 2019), a collection of essays and glossaries which consider the construction of the Kāpiti Expressway in the light of aesthetic and ecological ideas drawn from the writings of Charles Brasch. Lynn’s first book Dear Sweet Harry (AUP, 2010) won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry prize and her second book Lost and Gone Away was shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Lynn lives in Waipapa, near Kerikeri.
- [Angela Middleton](https://oup.nz/book-author/angela-middleton/) - Angela Middleton is a consultant archaeologist and honorary research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago. Pēwhairangi draws on the author’s ongoing examination of the archaeology of missionisation in New Zealand as well as its international comparative context. She has published Two Hundred Years on Codfish Island (Whenua Hou, 2007), Te Puna: A New Zealand mission station (2008) and Kerikeri Mission and Kororipo Pā: An entwined history (2013).
- [Sudesh Mishra](https://oup.nz/book-author/sudesh-mishra/) - Sudesh Mishra was born in Fiji and is the author of four books of poetry, including Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying (OUP, 2002). His poems have also been much anthologised. Sudesh has taught at universities in Fiji, Australia and Scotland. He is currently head of the School of Language, Arts and Media at the University of the South Pacific in Suva.
- [Neal Wallace](https://oup.nz/book-author/neal-wallace/) - Journalist Neal Wallace was raised on an Otago sheep and beef farm. On leaving school he worked as a farmhand in South Otago before embarking in 1983 on a journalism career, initially at the Ensign in Gore and then the Star in Christchurch. In 1987 he moved to Dunedin where he was the southern reporter for the weekly New Zealand Farmer for eight years before returning to daily journalism at the Otago Daily Times, where he has been ever since. Beginning as a general reporter, he has also been a business reporter and for 10 years was the ODT agribusiness editor. Latterly he has been the regional chief reporter. Wallace has won numerous awards, including the Rongo Award for excellence in agricultural journalism (1998) and two Qantas Media Awards (1999). In 2003 he was awarded a David Low Fellowship to attend the Reuters Foundation Programme at Oxford University.
- [Stevan Eldred-Grigg](https://oup.nz/book-author/stevan-eldred-grigg/) - Stevan Eldred-Grigg is a leading novelist and historian. His first novel, Oracles and Miracles, was a runaway bestseller. He is the author of many other books, fiction and non-fiction, among them Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The story of the New Zealand gold rushes (2008), and White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand, 1790–1950 (2014). Two earlier books focused on the world wars. Kaput! (2000) is a novel that tells the story of an ordinary German housewife and mother coping with Nazi dictatorship and Allied bombing. His previous book (2010) polarised readers with its trenchant criticisms. He now turns his uncompromising gaze on WWII.
- [Zeng Dazheng](https://oup.nz/book-author/zeng-dazheng/) - Zeng Dazheng (曾达峥) was raised in Xiamen, China, and now lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has studied and tutored in New Zealand politics and economics, worked as a parliamentary officer in Wellington and subsequently as a policy analyst for the Ministry of Economic Development. At present he is completing a doctoral thesis at Victoria University of Wellington; the topic is ‘Youth and social control in New Zealand political history’.
- [Lyndon Fraser](https://oup.nz/book-author/lyndon-fraser/) - Lyndon Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Canterbury. His previous publications include To Tara via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch (which won the Sir Keith Sinclair History Prize), A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement (as editor) and Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History (co-edited with Katie Pickles). His most recent book (co-edited with Angela McCarthy) is Far from ‘Home’: The English in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2012).
- [Neill Atkinson](https://oup.nz/book-author/neill-atkinson/) - Neill Atkinson is a professional historian with a particular interest in political, labour and maritime history. He currently works with the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in Wellington. He is the author of Rewarding Service: A History of the Government Superannuation Fund, and Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam. He has also written several essays for the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series.
- [Lachy Paterson](https://oup.nz/book-author/lachy-paterson/) - Lachy Paterson is a Senior Lecturer at Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, and a member of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago. His research interests focus on post-contact Māori history, especially print and textual culture and particularly through the use of Māori-language sources. His most recent publication (co-edited with Annabel Cooper and Angela Wanhalla) is The Lives of Colonial Objects (Otago University Press, 2015).
- [Dorothy Page](https://oup.nz/book-author/dorothy-page/) - Dorothy Page was commissioned to write this history on her retirement in 2000. Until then, she was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago. With research interests in women’s and public history, as well as biography, her publications include The National Council of Women: A Centennial History (1996) and Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives (2002, edited with Barbara Brookes).
- [Warwick Don](https://oup.nz/book-author/warwick-don/) - Warwick Don (1933-2014) was an honorary curator in entomology, Otago Museum, having retired from the Department of Zoology, University of Otago.
- [Ted McCoy](https://oup.nz/book-author/ted-mccoy/) - Ted McCoy (d.2012) held the Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in architecture from the NZ Institute of Architects and has won eight national awards and twenty regional awards for his buildings. He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004 for services to architecture and heritage. With Gary Blackman he co-authored Dunedin, Victorian City of New Zealand (1968), and he was a contributing author to Historic Buildings of New Zealand, South Island, published by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (1983).
- [Rosalie Carey](https://oup.nz/book-author/rosalie-carey/) - Rosalie Carey (1921-2011) was a well-known actor, producer, playright and writer. Her children’s stories have also been broadcast and published.
- [Ian Dougherty](https://oup.nz/book-author/ian-dougherty/) - Ian Dougherty is an historian and journalist based in Dunedin, Reed’s home town.
- [Kevin Dew](https://oup.nz/book-author/kevin-dew/) - Kevin Dew is a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago. With Peter Davis he has edited a book on health and society in Aotearoa/New Zealand and with Allison Kirkman has co-authored Sociology of Health in New Zealand.
- [Lewis E. Martin](https://oup.nz/book-author/lewis-e-martin/) - Lewis E. Martin (1920-2913) was an architect living in Wellington. After retiring from architecture he became a professional actor, working in live theatre, radio, television and films.
- [Maureen Hickey](https://oup.nz/book-author/maureen-hickey/) - Maureen Hickey is an historian for the Office of Treaty Settlements.
- [Miriam J. Laugesen](https://oup.nz/book-author/miriam-j-laugesen/) - Miriam J. Laugesen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York.
- [Mark Adams](https://oup.nz/book-author/mark-adams/) - Mark Adams was born in Christchurch in 1949. He is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished documentary photographers, working with subjects of cross-cultural significance. His photographs have been exhibited through solo and group exhibitions and major biennales throughout the world. His other books include Cook’s Sites: Revisiting History (with Nicholas Thomas).
- [Nicholas Thomas](https://oup.nz/book-author/nicholas-thomas/) - Nicholas Thomas was born in Sydney in 1960. His books include Entangled Objects (1991), Oceanic Art (1995), Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (1999) and Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook (2003). He has collaborated on several projects with Mark Adams, and curated many exhibitions, in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
- [Geoffrey Cox](https://oup.nz/book-author/geoffrey-cox/) - As a Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand, Geoffrey Cox atypically chose a career in journalism. He soon became a foreign correspondent reporting from Berlin on the establishment of the Nazi regime, recalled in his book Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s. He reported on many of the key European events leading up to World War II, but interrupted his career in journalism to serve in the North African and Mediterranean campaigns. He spent two years representing New Zealand in Washington and finished the war as General Freyberg’s Chief Intelligence Officer. After the war he returned to news journalism in England, and was instrumental in pioneering television journalism in Britain. In 1956 he became the new Independent Television Network’s first news editor and later co-founded World Wide Television, today a main television news agency. He was knighted for services to journalism. His extensive writings include Defence of Madrid, The Red Army Moves, The Road to Trieste, A Tale of Two Battles, Countdown to War, Pioneering TV News and Eyewitness.
- [Joanna Woods](https://oup.nz/book-author/joanna-woods/) - Joanna Woods was born in Dublin but has been based in New Zealand for many years. During her husband’s diplomatic career, she has lived in Bahrain, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, the United States and Russia, where she gained her doctorate on Katherine Mansfield from Moscow State University, subsequently published as Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield (2001). She is also the author of Facing the Music: A Biography of Charles Baeyertz (2008).
- [S.R.H Jones](https://oup.nz/book-author/s-r-h-jones/) - Stephen Jones is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Economic Studies, University of Dundee. He has previously taught at universities in England, Australia, New Zealand and the US. He graduated from the London School of Economics after a career in the merchant navy and completed his PhD at London University. His research is mainly concerned with the development of firms and markets.
- [Liz Slooten](https://oup.nz/book-author/liz-slooten/) - Liz Slooten is an associate professor in Zoology at the University of Otago. She researches and publishes on reproductive and population biology, population viability analysis, impact of fisheries on marine mammals, marine conservation biology and marine mammal biology.
- [Steve Dawson](https://oup.nz/book-author/steve-dawson/) - Steve Dawson is a professor in Marine Science at the University of Otago. He researches and publishes on conservation biology of marine mammals, incidental catch of marine mammals in fisheries, acoustic behaviour and communication in cetaceans, and line-transect surveys for inshore cetaceans.
- [Gavin McLean](https://oup.nz/book-author/gavin-mclean/) - Gavin McLean is Senior Historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. His many books include The Governors and the co-edited Frontier of Dreams. He has written several local histories and in 2006 edited Oamaru 1878: A Colonial Town and, with Kynan Gentry, Heartlands: New Zealand Historians Write About Places Where History Happened.
- [Diane Campbell-Hunt](https://oup.nz/book-author/diane-campbell-hunt/) - Diane Campbell-Hunt (d.2008) was a leading ecologist and botanist who was instrumental in the creation of the Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin. 
- [Colin Campbell-Hunt](https://oup.nz/book-author/colin-campbell-hunt/) - Colin Campbell-Hunt is a business school academic at the University of Otago.
- [Julie Evans](https://oup.nz/book-author/julie-evans/) - Julie Evans lives in Melbourne with her husband and two sons. She has a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies (La Trobe) and a PhD in History (University of Melbourne). She lectures in the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourne where she co-ordinates the Honours programme and teaches Law, Race and Indigenous Peoples, a graduate course that examines the law’s relation to Indigenous peoples in response to colonialism from 1492 to the present. Her current research theorises and demonstrates the intersections between international and domestic law in the formative stages of colonial rule when dispossession was paramount in Britain’s settler colonies. Through development of ‘The race and colonialism forum’ she hopes to extend understandings of the historico-legal dimensions of current issues facing Indigenous peoples in settler states throughout the broader community.
- [Sandra Chesterman](https://oup.nz/book-author/sandra-chesterman/) - Sandra Chesterman is an independent art researcher and writer living in Auckland.
- [Jude Wilson](https://oup.nz/book-author/jude-wilson/) - Jude Wilson is a tourism researcher at Lincoln University. After she returned to New Zealand from her own 20-year OE, the OE became the subject of her academic research. She remains addicted to travel.
- [Helen Bethea Gardner](https://oup.nz/book-author/helen-bethea-gardner/) - Helen Bethea Gardner is a lecturer in World History and Pacific History at the School of History, Heritage and Society in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2012 she became the external editor of the Journal of Pacific History and is a former secretary of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies. Her most recent publication, Southern Anthropology – a History of Fison and Howitt’s ‘Kamilaroi and Kurnai‘ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) co-authored with anthropologist Patrick McConvell, explores the conception and writing of a nineteenth-century book of Australian anthropology.
- [Ian St George](https://oup.nz/book-author/ian-st-george/) - Ian St George is a retired general practitioner. He came to Colenso studies through his interest in native orchids. He has edited a collection of Colenso’s letters to the editor entitled Give your Thoughts Life (2011) and Colenso’s Collections (2008). He is editor of eColenso, the newsletter of the Colenso Society.
- [Alastair Grant](https://oup.nz/book-author/alastair-grant/) - Born in Oamaru and an alumnus of Otago University, Alastair Grant was given a Kodak camera by his father at the age of 12 and has enjoyed photography ever since. He has exhibited in the Barry Lett Gallery, the New Vision Gallery and the City Library in Auckland, has had several exhibitions at the Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth, and has exhibited with Janne Land in Wellington.
- [Dianne Bardsley](https://oup.nz/book-author/dianne-bardsley/) - Dr Dianne Bardsley is a noted lexicographer, former Director of the New Zealand Dictionary Centre and lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Languages at Victoria University of Wellington
- [Jacqueline Leckie](https://oup.nz/book-author/jacqueline-leckie/) - Jacqueline Leckie is Programme Coordinator, Social Anthropology, at the University of Otago. She is the author of To Labour with the State: The Fiji Public Service Association (1997). Her most recent book is Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (co-edited with Gautam Ghosh, 2015).
- [Brian Easton](https://oup.nz/book-author/brian-easton/) - Brian Easton is a research economist and statistician, a columnist for the Listener, and the author of many books and monographs.
- [Olive Trotter](https://oup.nz/book-author/olive-trotter/) - Olive Trotter is a Dunedin writer who discovered Richardson while she was researching the life of Miss Learmonth Dalrymple, a tireless 19th-century campaigner for women’s rights. Since he amassed a vast archive in the course of his life – he kept every letter he had ever received, a complete record of his career in India, including pay-slips and commission documents, diaries from his early life in New Zealand, copies of his lectures on British India, and so on – she soon found herself with the task of sorting the largely unsorted Richardson papers at the Otago Settlers Museum, a task which led to this book. The manuscript of this, her first book, was completed in 1992. Subsequently Olive Trotter self-published four other books: The Maidservants Scandal, Dunedin’s Crowning Glory: The Town Clock Tower, Pioneers Behind Bars, and Dunedin’s Spiteful Socrates: J.G.S. Grant.
- [Tom Brooking](https://oup.nz/book-author/tom-brooking/) - Tom Brooking specialises in New Zealand and comparative rural and environmental history, New Zealand political history and the historical links between New Zealand and Scotland. This research has focused upon on environmental transformation and the role of colonising peoples in that process, particularly farming and its economic, environmental and sociological impacts. He has published seven sole author books, two co-authored books, and three edited volumes, in addition to numerous book chapters, essays and articles. His three most recent major books are Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand (University of Otago Press, 2013) edited with Eric Pawson; Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand (McGill-Queens University Press with Otago University Press, 2013) co-authored with Brad Patterson and Jim McAloon and a large monogragh on the life of Richard John Seddon entitled Richard Seddon: King of God’s Own (Penguin, 2014).
- [Brad Patterson](https://oup.nz/book-author/brad-patterson/) - Brad Patterson was formerly director of the Irish–Scottish studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington.
- [Susan Butterworth](https://oup.nz/book-author/susan-butterworth/) - Susan Butterworth, a professional historian, is the author of several books ranging from a history of Shetland Islanders to local histories, and co-author of Reforming Education: The New Zealand Experience 1984–1996 (1998).
- [Anna K.C. Peterson](https://oup.nz/book-author/anna-k-c-peterson/) - Anna Peterson is curator of photography at the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin.
- [Hugh Eldred-Grigg](https://oup.nz/book-author/hugh-eldred-grigg/) - Hugh Eldred-Grigg was born in Canterbury and graduated with an MA in political science from Victoria University of Wellington. Since graduating he has worked as a teaching assistant at VUW, a high school language teacher in Japan, a lecturer at Xiamen University in China, and a high school teacher in Estonia. Still in Estonia, at present he works in financial technology. He is the author of ‘What if the Moyle Affair had never happened?’ in Stephen Levine (ed.), New Zealand as it Might Have Been (VUP, 2006).
- [Kirstine Moffat](https://oup.nz/book-author/kirstine-moffat/) - Kirstine Moffat is Convenor of English and a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato. Her research interests in nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminist writing, and in particular the motif of music and what it conveys about femininity, led to the work that produced this book. She is co-editor of the Journal of New Zealand Literature.
- [Harvey Brown](https://oup.nz/book-author/harvey-brown/) - Dr Harvey Brown (1933-2024) was a public health dentist, dental epidemiologist, and NZDJ editor
- [Claire Le Couteur](https://oup.nz/book-author/claire-le-couteur/) - Claire Le Couteur is a doctoral student in history, freelance author and has been editor of several newsletters for groups including the Canterbury Branch of the Historic Places Trust and the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
- [E Badian](https://oup.nz/book-author/e-badian/)
- [Tim Shoebridge](https://oup.nz/book-author/tim-shoebridge/) - Tim Shoebridge is a historian at the History Group of the Ministry for Culture & Heritage. Tim, who published The Good Citizen: A Life of C.E. Daniell of Masterton and a guide to the National War Memorial in 2009, is writing a history of the impact of the automobile on New Zealand.
- [James Bennett](https://oup.nz/book-author/james-bennett/) - James Bennett teaches history and film in the School of Humanities, University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a New Zealander and a graduate of Canterbury University and the University of Melbourne.
- [Nick Perry](https://oup.nz/book-author/nick-perry/) - Nick Perry is Associate Professor of Film, TV and Media Studies at The University of Auckland. A former President of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, he has published extensively here and abroad, including contributing to and being advisory editor for the media section of the eleven-volume 3.5 million-word Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007). His books are Controlling Interests: Business, The State and Society in New Zealand (co-edited with John Deeks, AUP 1992), The Dominion of Signs: Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions (AUP, 1994), Hyperreality and Global Culture (Routledge, 1998) and Television in New Zealand (co-edited with Roger Horrocks, Oxford University Press, 2004).
- [M E Andrew](https://oup.nz/book-author/m-e-andrew/)
- [Margaret Hixon](https://oup.nz/book-author/margaret-hixon/) - Margaret Hixon has produced a number of works documenting life in traditional communities. She first visited Tonga in 1987 and began researching this biography soon after. She was encouraged to write this book by the Tongan royal family.
- [Alan Musgrave](https://oup.nz/book-author/alan-musgrave/) - Alan Musgrave (b. 1940) has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago since 1970. He was educated at the London School of Economics, where his PhD was supervised by Sir Karl Popper. With Imre Lakatos, he edited Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1970), one of the most influential collections of essays in twentieth-century philosophy of science. His other publications include Common Sense, Science and Scepticism (1993) and Essays on Realism and Rationalism (1999). His views were recently the subject of a book Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (2006).
- [Maureen Birchfield](https://oup.nz/book-author/maureen-birchfield/) - Maureen Birchfield is a former teacher and student advisor. She has worked for the National Oral History Association of New Zealand, the Society for Research on Women, the Trade Union History Project, and the Women’s Electoral Lobby.
- [Pat Barrett](https://oup.nz/book-author/pat-barrett/) - Pat Barrett is an active tramper and adventurer who has authored five South Island tramping guides. He has led three-week expeditions to Nepal and South America and competed in three Coast-to-Coast events as well as the Southern Traverse. He is a regular contributor to Wilderness magazine, The Press and the Dominion Post. He lives with his wife and three children in Christchurch.
- [Fiona Ciaran](https://oup.nz/book-author/fiona-ciaran/) - Fiona Ciaran has worked as an art historian at the University of Otago and was director of the Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru.
- [G.A. Wood](https://oup.nz/book-author/g-a-wood/) - Dr G.A. Wood, a political commentator and writer on New Zealand politics and political history, for twenty years was in the Political Studies Department at the University of Otago, as senior lecturer then associate professor. His publications include Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament (1996), Governing New Zealand (1988); The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand (with A.H. McLintock, 1987); The Governor and his Northern House (1975); W.P. Morrell: A Tribute. Essays in modern and early modern history (ed. with P.S. O’Connor, 1973); and numerous articles and essays.
- [Senka Bozic-Vrbancic](https://oup.nz/book-author/senka-bozic-vrbancic/) - Senka Bozic-Vrbancic is McArthur Research Fellow in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry at the University of Melbourne. During the last decade she has worked in New Zealand, Ukraine, Croatia and Australia, completing her doctoral thesis on Māori–Croatian relationships at the University of Auckland in 2004. Her scholarly interests range widely, from indigenous and migrant identity formation, the politics of representation, visual culture and diaspora issues, to nationalisms and multiculturalisms. Her research addresses questions of globalisation, home, belonging, community and transnational connections.
- [Julia Bradshaw](https://oup.nz/book-author/julia-bradshaw/) - Julia Bradshaw is a researcher and writer formerly based in Arrowtown, where she worked as a researcher and exhibitions person at the Lakes District Museum. She is now curator at the West Coast Historical Museum, Hokitika. She has written books and articles and undertaken oral history projects, mostly about the history and people of the Lakes District and South Westland. She is also the author of Arrowtown: History and Walks (Otago University Press, 2001).
- [Graham Bishop](https://oup.nz/book-author/graham-bishop/) - As Regional Geologist with the New Zealand Geological Survey, Graham Bishop spent much of his career in the footsteps of Alexander McKay, who always seemed to have been there first, notably in Fiordland, the Routeburn and Matukituki and South and Central Otago. He has a strong interest in environmental issues, and has been a member of the Mt Aspiring National Park Board and the Kawarau River Conservation Tribunal.. Formerly a leading mountaineer, he still enjoys walking and visiting the mountains when possible. As well as many scientific papers and much non-fiction, he has written poetry and fiction. This is his seventh book.
- [Atholl Anderson](https://oup.nz/book-author/atholl-anderson/) - Professor Atholl Anderson, FRSNZ, is of Kāi Tahu descent. He was head of anthropology at Otago before spending the last 17 years of his academic career at Australian National University, in Canberra. He is the editor of James Herries Beattie’s Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori (Otago University Press, 2009). His most recent publication, co-authored with the late Dame Judith Binney and Dr Aroha Harris, is Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (2014). You can read an interview with Professor Anderson here.
- [Louis Thiercelin](https://oup.nz/book-author/louis-thiercelin/) - Louis Thiercelin (1809-1884) was a French author and publisher. He was known for his works in the field of literature and publishing during the 19th century. One specific event associated with him is his visit to Ōnuku, New Zealand, in 1840, where he documented the local settlement.
- [Derek Gould](https://oup.nz/book-author/derek-gould/) - Derek Gould is a retired Principal Assistant Secretary for Health and Welfare in the Hong Kong Government, now turned consultant. He also lectures on health policy and public administration at various universities.
- [Chris Rudd](https://oup.nz/book-author/chris-rudd/) - Chris Rudd is a senior lecturer in political studies, University of Otago.
- [Denis McLean](https://oup.nz/book-author/denis-mclean/) - Denis McLean, a graduate of Victoria and Oxford Universities, has much experience of dealings between the two countries he calls ‘The Prickly Pair’. He was a member of the New Zealand foreign service for over twenty years, Secretary of Defence in Wellington for nine years and New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, 1991–94.
- [David Green](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-green/) - David Green is an historian and editor in the History Group, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington. His research interests are the New Zealand state, military history and sport. Co-author of The Gunners: A History of New Zealand Artillery, he is working on a guide to the battlefields of the New Zealand Wars.
- [John Singleton](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-singleton/) - John Singleton is Reader in Economic History at the School of Economics & Finance, Victoria University of Wellington. He is the principal author of Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973–2002, and has written extensively on the economic and business history of the UK, New Zealand and the Commonwealth.
- [Stephen Deed](https://oup.nz/book-author/stephen-deed/) - Stephen Deed is an historian and librarian with an interest in the interpretation and conservation of buildings and landscapes. He has worked closely with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and the Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand to record and protect important and fragile parts of our built environment. Stephen studied at the University of Otago but now lives in London, and although he has come to love its grimy brick terraces, New Zealand’s landscape and old wooden houses are still close to his heart.
- [Charles R. Clark](https://oup.nz/book-author/charles-r-clark/) - Charles Clark began his working life as a merchant seaman in the British Merchant Navy and later became a research chemist, with a doctorate from the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is well equipped for this discussion of safety at sea. As an academic, he is the co-author of 90–100 publications in refereed international chemistry journals and three book chapters. He has worked at the Australian National University and the University of Otago.
- [David Howard](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-howard/) - David Howard spent 35 years writing The Incomplete Poems (Cold Hub Press, 2011). He is the editor of A Place To Go On From: The collected poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 2015). He has held the Robert Burns Fellowship (2013), the Otago Wallace Residency (2014), a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016), and the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016).
- [Owen Marshall](https://oup.nz/book-author/owen-marshall/) - Owen Marshall has written, or edited, 25 books, including three collections of poetry. He has held fellowships at the universities of Canterbury and Otago, and in Menton, France. In 2000 his novel Harlequin Rex won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for fiction. Marshall is an adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury, which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 2002. He received the ONZM in 2000 and the CNZM in 2012 for services to literature, and in 2013 the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction.
- [Afife Skafi Harris](https://oup.nz/book-author/afife-skafi-harris/) - Afife Skafi Harris is Lebanese and teaches Lebanese cooking in her home and at a community night class. She often uses these occasions, along with her considerable catering skills, to fundraise for local schools and other organisations. She is a well-known stallholder at the Dunedin Farmers’ Market.
- [Beryl Lee](https://oup.nz/book-author/beryl-lee/) - Beryl Lee was born in Dunedin where she spent most of her working life as a teacher. For many years she has provided support for overseas students and hosted world travellers through an international travel organisation. She is currently president of the local multi-ethnic council.
- [David Geraghty](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-geraghty/) - David Geraghty is a graduate of the University of Otago and a former Commonwealth Scholar. He spent four years living in Asia and has travelled widely there. He lives with his family in Auckland.
- [R D J Collins](https://oup.nz/book-author/r-d-j-collins/)
- [Mark Stocker](https://oup.nz/book-author/mark-stocker/)
- [Nina Mariette](https://oup.nz/book-author/nina-mariette/) - Nina Mariette was born in 1946 in Europe and came to New Zealand when she was six. She grew up in a small provincial town, the only child in her class born outside of New Zealand. As an adult she battled with alcohol and drugs trying to escape the memories of her childhood abuse. Finally she found painting and writing as ‘a powerful way of recognising my childhood abuse, of naming it, and of owning it in a way nothing else has come close to’.
- [Michael Mobbs](https://oup.nz/book-author/michael-mobbs/) - Michael Mobbs has worked as a lawyer in his own practice, specialising in environmental law and policy. He was an associate lecturer in environmental law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and has served on the Sydney City Council. He was the founding editor of what became the New South Wales Law Handbook and of the Environmental Law Reporter (1980).
- [John Pule](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-pule/) - John Pule was born in Niue and is a professional artist living in Auckland. He frequently draws on the traditions and mythology of Niue in his work. He is also a poet and novelist. Hauaga: The Art of John Pule, the first book on Pule’s art, was published in 2010 to coincide with the first major survey exhibition of John Pule’s work, curated by the City Gallery Wellington.
- [Shifen Gong](https://oup.nz/book-author/shifen-gong/)
- [Adam Lam](https://oup.nz/book-author/adam-lam/)
- [Qiao Zhang](https://oup.nz/book-author/qiao-zhang/)
- [Ray Harlow](https://oup.nz/book-author/ray-harlow/)
- [O.E. Middleton](https://oup.nz/book-author/o-e-middleton/) - O.E. Middleton (1925-2010) was a senior figure in New Zealand literature. Having worked at a variety of jobs, he served in the air force and army in 1944–45 and after the war lived in the US before travel in Europe. He began publishing his stories in 1949 and emerged as a significant practitioner of the ‘vernacular critical realist tradition of Frank Sargeson’. But, as the editor has written, ‘At his best … he is a subtle artist who can extend the sympathetic imagination of his readers, increase their awareness of basic human worth and show the evils of racial and economic injustice.’
- [Linda Burgess](https://oup.nz/book-author/linda-burgess/)
- [David Lyndon Brown](https://oup.nz/book-author/david-lyndon-brown/)
- [Claudia Brugman](https://oup.nz/book-author/claudia-brugman/)
- [Ee-Kheng Birks](https://oup.nz/book-author/ee-kheng-birks/)
- [F W Craddock](https://oup.nz/book-author/f-w-craddock/)
- [A.J. Geare](https://oup.nz/book-author/a-j-geare/) - A.J. Geare is a Professor in the Management Department at the University of Otago. He has worked as a consultant to many organisations and unions and has been an adjudicator and mediator member of New Zealand’s Employment Tribunal.
- [F.J. Edgar](https://oup.nz/book-author/f-j-edgar/) - F.J. Edgar teaches and researches in human resource management, industrial relations and management theory at the University of Otago.
- [Syd Cormack](https://oup.nz/book-author/syd-cormack/)
- [Lynn Davidson](https://oup.nz/book-author/lynn-davidson/)
- [Bronwyn Tate](https://oup.nz/book-author/bronwyn-tate/) - Bronwyn Tate (1959-2005) published four novels: Halfway to Africa (2002), Leaving for Townsville (1997), Russian Dolls (1999) and Lily’s Cupola (2003).
- [Bronwyn Bannister](https://oup.nz/book-author/bronwyn-bannister/)
- [Mary Paul](https://oup.nz/book-author/mary-paul/) - Mary Paul is a senior lecturer in English and Media Studies at Massey University Albany, in Auckland. She is the editor of Lighted Windows: Critical essays on Robin Hyde (Otago University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Gothic NZ: The darker side of Kiwi culture (with Jennifer Lawn and Misha Kavka, Otago University Press, 2006). Her most recent book is Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s autobiographical writings (Otago University Press, 2012).
- [John Parr](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-parr/)
- [Ross McDonald](https://oup.nz/book-author/ross-mcdonald/) - Born in Scotland, Ross McDonald teaches business and social issues, business and culture, and the ethics of modern economy, at the University of Auckland. His research work in the Pacific is done through the Mira Szaszy Centre for Maori and Pacific Island Development at the university.
- [Jan Kemp](https://oup.nz/book-author/jan-kemp/) - After many years in Asia, Jan Kemp now lives in New Zealand and regularly visits Germany, from where she further explores Europe.
- [Diane Hebley](https://oup.nz/book-author/diane-hebley/)
- [Alastair Fox](https://oup.nz/book-author/alastair-fox/) - Alastair Fox is Professor of English at the University of Otago. An internationally recognised Renaissance scholar, his past publications include the English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England (Blackwell, 1997), Reassessing the Henrician Age: Politics and Reform 1500–1550 (Blackwell, 1986) and Thomas More: History and Providence (Yale, 1983). More recently, Professor Fox has been writing on contemporary New Zealand culture, with The Ship of Dreams being his first book-length foray into the field of New Zealand literature.
- [Rae McGregor](https://oup.nz/book-author/rae-mcgregor/)
- [Vivienne Plumb](https://oup.nz/book-author/vivienne-plumb/) - Vivienne Plumb is an award-winning playwright, poet and fiction writer. Plumb has held several residencies, including one in 2004 at the University of Iowa and the 2006 Massey University writers’ residency. She has a BA and an MA from Victoria University in Wellington, and holds a Doctorate in Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
- [C.K. Stead](https://oup.nz/book-author/c-k-stead/) - C.K. STEAD has published eight novels, two collections of short stories, twelve collections of poetry, and four of literary criticism. He has edited a number of anthologies and has been a regular reviewer for the London Review of Books, in which many of these essays first appeared. He has received a number of literary awards, the CBE in 1984 for services to New Zealand literature, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. He was professor of English at Auckland University for twenty years before leaving in 1986 to write full-time. His best-known work of literary criticism is The New Poetic, which sold over 100,000 copies in Britain and the US.
- [A C Aitken](https://oup.nz/book-author/a-c-aitken/)
- [Umelo Ojinmah](https://oup.nz/book-author/umelo-ojinmah/)
- [K. W. Allison](https://oup.nz/book-author/k-w-allison-2/) - K. W. Allison spent most of his working life in the New Zealand Forest Service, being stationed at various times at Rotorua, Waipoua, Naseby and Berwick. For over 25 years he assiduously collected mosses and liverworts, exchanging specimens with overseas experts and corresponding regularly with Mrs A. E. Hodgson, who published over 20 papers on liverworts of New Zealand. Allison’s collection of some 7,000 liverwort specimens, has been donated recently to the National Herbarium.
- [John Child](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-child/) - John Child studied economics at both the University of Otago and Oxford University. He then spent ten years lecturing at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. During this time he pursued his interest in natural history, and wrote a number of introductory books on plants and animals of Australia. Since his return to New Zealand in 1967 he has written a number of books on New Zealand natural history. He collaborated with K. W. Allison in The Mosses of New Zealand, University of Otago Press, 1971.
- [Denis Glover](https://oup.nz/book-author/denis-glover/) - Denis James Matthews Glover (9 December 1912 – 9 August 1980) was a New Zealand poet and publisher. Born in Dunedin, he attended the University of Canterbury where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently lectured. He worked as a reporter and editor for a time, and in 1937 founded the Caxton Press, which published the works of many well-known New Zealand writers of the day (including Glover’s own poetry). After a period of service in World War II, he and his friend Charles Brasch founded the literary magazine Landfall, which Caxton began publishing in 1947.
- [Ariana Tikao](https://oup.nz/book-author/ariana-tikao/) - Ariana Tikao is a Kāi Tahu writer, musician and New Zealand Arts Laureate. Her work spans poetry, music and interdisciplinary performance, and has been published widely in Aotearoa. Her book Mokorua: My Story of Moko Kauae was published in 2022 (AUP). Pepeha Portal is her debut poetry collection.
- [Trish Harris](https://oup.nz/book-author/trish-harris/) - Trish Harris is a writer and creative writing tutor. She is the author of my wide white bed and The Walking Stick Tree, and has worked across publishing, radio and disability media. She co-founded Crip the Lit and is passionate about sharing Deaf and disabled stories with readers.
- [Craig Cliff](https://oup.nz/book-author/craig-cliff/) - Craig Cliff is the author of the novels Nailing Down the Saint and The Mannequin Makers, and the story collection A Man Melting, which won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. His work has been translated into German, Spanish and Romanian. Craig reviews books for a range of New Zealand publications and was the convenor of the judging panel for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 2017 and now lives with his family in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
- [Ross Webb](https://oup.nz/book-author/ross-webb/) - Ross Webb is an historian based in Lower Hutt. He holds a PhD in history from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, and is a co-author of Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori home front during the Second World War (Auckland University Press, 2024).
- [Isabel Haarhaus](https://oup.nz/book-author/isabel-haarhaus/) - Isabel Haarhaus is a writer and teacher in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has worked as a journalist, lecturer, and arts editor and educator. Her short stories have appeared in Landfall, Reading Room, Sport, Takahē and Brief. Feral and other stories is her first book.
- [John Paul Ryan](https://oup.nz/book-author/john-paul-ryan/) - JOHN PAUL RYAN is a teacher living in Māruawai Gore. He studied theology at the University of Otago and has taught religious education, history and social studies for nearly two decades. He is active in conservation and restoration projects in the Hokonui hills.