Support your local writers

This is a new initiative for us, so please be patient as we work with the design of the site, get our authors details on record and make this work for everyone. 

​If you have any suggestions, or would like your writing to feature on this page, please contact us ​[email protected]

How to support your Top of the South writers:

• buy books published by our talented writers
• review books where possible
• recommend books
• join discussion on our Facebook Page

Look out for these authors and titles:
Alphabetical order by author's first name

Ali Brown
New Zealand Flax Weaving - 5 volumes
​https://www.alibrown.nz/shop/
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Bellebird James​

1. ​Bloom
2. The Art of Loving Libby Green

https://linktr.ee/bellebirdjames

​Colin Clough
​The tap dance...
Published by STEM Writers [email protected]

Elizabeth MacNaughtan Williams 
​The Ladies Home Haiku Book ​
​From good bookshops or from author​[email protected]

​Garrick Batten

1. Long Head and Hold - rural short story
2. Short Head and Yard - rural short story
3. Farmer Bill - rural biography
4. ​What Happened to Haystacks and Horses? - rural history
5. ​Big Buck$ For Pastoral Farmers - technical
6. Nine Lives and Lessons​ - childrens

​https://ruralscribe.wordpress.com/

Jan Marsh​
​Dealing with Depression: simple ways to get your life back
​https://janmarsh.net/

​Jeanette Goode
​A Little Blue - children's picture book
​https://jeanettegoode.co.nz

Lindy Kelly
The Ghost of Brian MacDoggarty
Released Nov 2023
Available from [email protected]
​​Julia Panfylova
Lada Between Two Worlds
https://www.facebook.com/nana.panfilova
Buy on Kindle or hard copy

Kate Shaw 
Latent Magic
@kateshaw_author
https://books2read.com/rl/kateshaw
Available from Wheelers

Martin J Bird
The Four Masters - historical fiction trilogy:

1. The King's Priest,
2. Shield Maiden and
3. The Seeds of Heimdall

Available on Amazon
https://martinbirdauthor.com/

Patricia Berwick

1. The Tablets of Ur
2. Island of Secrets 

Available on Amazon
https://www.berwicksbooks.com 

Paul Maunder
Solidarity a Blackball Novel
In bookstores and available from Wheelers 
Order direct from the author [email protected]
paulmaunder.com

Robyn Prokop
Epic Fantasy (YA) first two books in a series of four. Buy the Ebook or order from your favourite bookstore.

1. Taelstone - Stones of the Azuri - Ebook
2. Heartstone - Ebook

[email protected]

Rosalina-Ludmila McCarthy
Belated Accolades 
This historical photographic biography is available from Wheelers or at Nelson's Volume Bookstore
[email protected]

Shelley Nonanda Harris
Series of self help books for young readers

1. The Patchwork Family
2. Invisible Elephants
3. Living with the Lions
4. Brave
5. Advice for Starting School

Available as printed, illustrated copy from The Copypress Real NZ Books or  www.mynannybooks.com/
[email protected]

STEM Writers Nelson
Collections from local writers:

1. ​Love/Which alters
2. Nelson noir
3. COVID operations
4. Lunch Books Pack One
5. Working away, unseen: the lives of Nelson women
6. Past/Present 
7. Lunch Books 11

Contact ​[email protected] for copies.

W.F. Stubbs
​The Tasman Journey
Available from the online store
[email protected]​

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