Authors

Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand novelist, playwright, journalist, television writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and The Two Popes (2019). He received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.

Rosalina-Ludmila McCarthy (formerly Palamountain) became Nelson's second woman professional photographer (after Rosaline Frank) with her own studio. One photographic career highlight was a commissioned assignment to India where she photographed Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi. After photographing a Child Care Centre in Siberia, a joint career of photography and research writing work began with documentaries, radio play written/produced/broadcast, becoming radio interview host, plus work on scripted audio-visual photography and general photo journalism. Later qualifications including a Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies led to researching/documenting commissioned evidential reports for Organisational & Private Clients on a variety of topics including Historical Land Issues & Claims.

Dr Lana McCarthy is a high-performance netball coach, and is currently working as a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This book draws on her doctoral thesis, which investigated the ways in which captains and coaches have constructed the culture of New Zealand's national netball team. She was formerly an assistant lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North, where she taught physical education. Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North. He has been involved in a range of experiential learning projects in sport management education, physical education, and outdoor education. He is the lead author of Outdoor & Experiential Learning (2004). He is also co-author of Legends in Black with Geoff Watson and Tom Johnson (2014). Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, Palmerston North, where he teaches history. He wrote Seasons of Honour: A centenary history of hockey in New Zealand 1902-2002 (2002), and, with Professor Greg Ryan, co-authored Sport and the New Zealanders: A history (2018).

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Noelle McCarthy is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. "Buck Rabbit", her first foray into non-fiction, won the Short Memoir section of the Fish Publishing International Writing competition in 2020. Since 2017, she and her husband John Daniell have been making critically acclaimed podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions. She has written columns, reviews, first-person essays and features for a wide range of media in New Zealand including Metro, The NZ Herald and Newsroom. In Ireland, she's provided commentary for radio and written for The Irish Times, The Independent and The Irish Examiner. With nearly twenty years' experience in radio, she is a go-to host at writer's festivals and has interviewed some of the world's most famous and well-respected storytellers, from Eleanor Catton to Marlon James, Margaret Atwood and James Cameron. She lives in the New Zealand countryside with her husband and their daughter, and she misses Irish chocolate.

Tania McCartney is an author, editor, reviewer and features writer. She has been writing professionally for over 25 years and has almost a thousand articles and reviews in print and online. Passionate about literacy, Tania founded the highly regarded children’s literature website Kids’ Book Review and the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, and is an ambassador for the Australian National Year of Reading 2012. She has spent many years presenting and speaking on reading, books and writing. Her previous book with Tina Snerling was the bestselling An Aussie Year. Tania is also the author of the very successful Beijing Tai Tai. Described as ‘The Eat, Pray, Love for mothers’, this is her account of the four years she spent living in China’s capital. Tania has also lived in Paris and London, and currently lives in Canberra with her husband and two kids, and a mountain of books. Tina Snerling is an illustrator, children’s wear designer and graphic artist. Formerly a fashion and textiles designer, she now illustrates the award-winning Kids’ Year series and other picture books, and is the Art Director for a children’s stationery company. She lives in Brisbane with her husband, two kids and a wild imagination to draw the world with childhood innocence.

In the early eighties Sue McCauley’s first novel, Other Halves, won both the Goodman Fielder Wattie and New Zealand Book Awards for fiction. It was reprinted numerous times, in New Zealand and overseas, selling in excess of 20,000 copies, and was made into a film. In subsequent years Sue wrote four more novels, two short story collections and a biography. She has also written drama for stage and TV and adapted her own novel for the film Other Halves. That, Sue’s first book, was loosely based on the early — and unconventional — relationship between Sue and her now husband, Pat, who these days live on a farm near Dannevirke. They have been together for fifty years.

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