Authors

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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Lynn McConnell completed a Master of Arts in History in 2017 after a lifetime in newspaper and digital journalism. He has 25 books to his credit. These include: Something to Crow About (the centennial history of Southland rugby), Galatas 1941: Courage in Vain, Behind the Silver Fern (two editions), Chats (The autobiography of Ewen Chatfield), Living the Dream (The autobiography of Mils Muliaina), McKechnie, Double All Black (the autobiography of Brian McKechnie and Grand Larseny (the 1999 World Cup Cricket diary of Gavin Larsen.

Olivia McCord is a passionate home gardener, freelance writer for gardening magazines, and the founder of Crawford Road, a cut flower seed business. After starting her career in beauty marketing, Olivia discovered her true calling when she transformed a bare land project into an organic kiwifruit orchard and edible flower farm. A self-taught gardener, Olivia later gained qualifications in horticulture and has built a career around growing and arranging flowers. Now, she shares her knowledge to inspire fellow gardeners. A busy mum of two, Olivia enjoys rural life, growing and cooking with seasonal produce, and studying garden design through the English Gardening School in London.

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Jo McCready grew up on the rain-soaked streets of small-town Scotland before moving to the sunnier climes of Auckland, New Zealand in 2010. She has a background in psychology and a lifetime love of mystery and murder.

Athol McCredie is Curator Photography at Te Papa, where he has worked since 2001. He has been involved with photography as a researcher, curator and photographer since the 1970s. His publications include Brian Brake: Lens on the world (editor, 2010), New Zealand Photography Collected (2015) and The New Photography: New Zealand's first generation of documentary photographers (2019).

Bob McCree has spent the last 20 years photographing New Zealand and New Zealanders, and has over 70,000 images of all areas of the country and all aspects of the New Zealand lifestyle. A life member of the Howick Camera Club, he has been a member of the Photographic Society of New Zealand for the last 20 years and holds their highest honours award of a Fellow of that Society (FPSNZ). In recent years he has had over a dozen pictorial books published in his name, and has contributed many images to other books and a wide range of calendars and other pictorial publications. He lives in Howick, Auckland.