Authors

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.

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Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor's degree in English and History from the University of Auckland. The first draft of Fake Baby was awarded the Sir James Wallace Prize- New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She works part-time as a Newborn Intensive Care Nurse and has work published in The Spinoff and Auckland University's Three Lamps Journal. Her short story 'Kowhai' was shortlisted for the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Novice Award in 2008.

Roger McDonald is an acclaimed Australian novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter. Among his ten novels are The Ballad of Desmond Kale, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, multiple-award-winning Mr Darwin’s Shooter and his most recent, A Sea-Chase. Linked to the Spirit of Adventure Trust by family, Roger divides his time between Waiheke Island and rural Victoria, and is a keen sailor.

Elisabeth McDonald MNZM is an independent legal researcher and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury. She has taught and published in the areas of sexual and family violence, law and sexuality, criminal law and the law of evidence for over 30 years, as an academic and as the Policy Manager for the evidence law reference at the New Zealand Law Commission. Elisabeth is the author of a number of evidence law textbooks and online legal resources, including ‘Rape Myths as Barriers to Fair Trial Process’ (2020), and is co-editor of From ‘”Real Rape” to Real Justice’ (2011) and ‘Feminist Judgments Aotearoa: Te Rino, the Two-Stranded Rope’ (2017).

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My first book "A Southern Tale," came about after running a weather station in the Southern ocean, and encountering the wildlife there. Drawing and painting have been a life long hobby, and provided an income while I was raising a family. After 20 years teaching children art in my home studio, I thought I'd offer my knowledge in book form. This is how I would teach drawing most efficiently, keeping within an appropriate age/skill level of difficultly.

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Jillian McDowell is a New Zealand trained physiotherapist in private practice with 30 years of clinical experience. She has taught acupuncture for 26 years and more recently, for 11 years Mulligan Concept, both nationally and internationally. Previously tagged for both Manipulative Therapy and Acupuncture by the NZ College of Physiotherapy, she completed a master’s degree in Physiotherapy in 2007. As a co-director of a private physiotherapy practice, she works primarily as a full-time clinician, in addition to teaching. She is the current President and Research Officer on the executive of the Physiotherapy Acupuncture Association of New Zealand, works as an auditor for the Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand and an independent consultant for the Health and Disability Commissioner of New Zealand. Jillian is the current International Chair of the Mulligan Concept Teachers Association (MCTA). She has eight journal publications and has contributed to two editions of the Mulligan Concept techniques textbook, including the annotation section. Her areas of interest are adverse reactions to acupuncture and manual therapy, western acupuncture, patient notes and the treatment of pelvic girdle pain and headaches. Thomas Mitchell is a UK physiotherapist with a special interest in the wrist and hand, a private practitioner and first contact practitioner in primary care for the NHS. He has over 20 years of experience in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, and worked in the elite sporting environment, notably with GB Boxing, the English Institute of Sports, GB Wheelchair Rugby and Sheffield United Football Club until 2014. He lectures regularly at national and international conferences and for online physiotherapy education, and is research active. Brian Mulligan qualified as a physiotherapist in 1954. He received his Diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 1972. He has been an international lecturer and speaker in the field of manual therapy for over four decades, with many accolades and professional achievement awards. Over the past 35 years he has developed his own concepts and treatments. His approach has spread, and is now being taught in most of the continents. Today he heads his Mulligan Concept Teachers Association. This international association was set up to accredit teachers, by exam, of his concepts and to ensure that his concept courses were of the highest standard. Therapists can now sit a ‘Certified Mulligan Practitioner’ exam (CMP) and those who have passed are listed by country on the web page www.bmulligan.com. He has written his own text-book for therapists called ‘Manual Therapy ‘NAGS’, ‘SNAGs’, ‘MWMs’ etc.’ which is now available in its 7th edition. One of Brian’s key mentors was Freddy Kaltenborn, who taught him to manipulate and mobilise every joint in the body and gave him a ‘prepared mind’ in his field of manual therapy.Brian’s favourite quote comes from Louis Pasteur who said ‘In the field of discovery chance only favours the prepared mind.’ The reader is invited to view Brian Mulligan’s web page, www.bmulligan.com, where references are listed supporting his concepts efficacy.

Matt McEvoy completed a Bachelor of Music degree between Auckland and Otago Universities. A holiday job at an Auckland tech company turned into ten years of working in communications technology around Europe and finally Qatar, where he joined a small team creating the first outpost of Vodafone in the Middle East. Returning to Auckland, Matt now spreads his time between teaching piano, managing property interests, accepting the occasional local technology contract, and writing, with a particular interest in social history and the diverse stories of extraordinary people who are seldom given a voice in New Zealand culture. His first book, The Grey Lynn Book, published in 2018, went into a second printing.