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Writing

Essays

Mrs Chippy - The Spinoff, February 2024

The Big Snow: Christchurch 1992 - The Spinoff, October 2022

Letter from Dadland - The Spinoff, September 2022

The Cold Beneath the House - North & South, June 2022

This Old House - North & South, March 2022

Dear Henry - Sunday Star Times, January 2022

Christmas Baby - Newsroom, December 2021

The winter wonder land - The Spinoff, May 2021

Bosker Days - North & South, April 2021

The agapanthus city - The Spinoff, February 2021

The life of names - Verb Wellington, September 2020

Uncle Llew - Newsroom, August 2020

A short history of the New Zealand jersey - The Spinoff , May 2020

Man reads The Plague during the plague - Newsroom, April 2020

There used to be ghosts in New Zealand - Newsroom, February 2020

Days of sugar and ice - The Spinoff, February 2020

A light left burning in Eketahuna - North & South, February 2020

The works - North & South, April, 2019

The people’s cup - The Spinoff, May 2019

A white man’s fantasy - and sad reality - of living alone on a Cook Islands atoll - The Spinoff, February 2019

The house that Norm built - North & South, July 2018

Inside the Surrey Hotel - The Spinoff, June 2018

Notes on macrocarpa - Turbine, 2018

Temperament - North & South, December 2017

One night with you - The Spinoff, September 2017

The Commercial Hotel - Sport 44, 2016

A road trip, a chihuahua and Antiques Roadshow - The Spinoff, July 2016

Real Life - Sport 42, 2015

Fiction

Baby - Newsroom, April 2023

Curator - Newsroom, May 2021

Pagans - Landfall, Spring 2018

Own shadow - Sport 45, 2017

Rata Terrace - Landfall, Spring 2016

Reviews

The subtle and tremendously self-serving art of not giving a fuck - The Spinoff, June 2018

Go outside and play: an ode to the joys of tramping - The Spinoff, January 2017

A glimpse at the workings - The Pantograph Punch, October 2017

Great New Zealand non-fiction - The Pantograph Punch, December 2016

A working class hero is something to be - The Spinoff, January 2016

Travel writing

On the line - North & South, January 2023

The communists’ last stand - NZ Herald, October 2014

Mao and me - Listener, October 2013

The road to Mandalay - Listener, October 2013

Curse of the cave mummies - NZ Herald, August 2013

Slessor’s Sydney - Listener, June 2012

Malaysia’s Batu Caves home to temples and monkeys - Listener, September 2011

Houses of the Hakka - Listener, March 2011

Slow train in China - Listener, April 2008

Pool party - Listener, January 2007