by Graeme Lay
From the 1990s onwards, after travelling to New Caledonia and Rarotonga, Graeme Lay developed a deep interest in the islands of the South Pacific and the history and culture of the region’s indigenous peoples. Many of his books, both fiction and non-fiction, are set in the South Pacific. For example his trilogy for young adults, Leaving One Foot Island (1998), Return to One Foot Island (2001) and The Pearl of One Foot Island (2004) are set mainly on Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, and his adult thriller, Temptation Island (2000) is set on a fictional South Pacific island, Savaiki.
Graeme Lay’s other works include the travel collection The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest (2004); an historical novel, Alice & Luigi (2006); a travel memoir, Inside the Cannibal Pot (2007); The New Zealand Book of the Beach (2007) and The New Zealand Book of the Beach 2 (2008); In Search of Paradise: Artists and Writers in the Colonial South Pacific (2008) and Whangapoua: Harbour of the Shellfish (2009). He also compiled and edited the anthology Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten: New Zealand Writers and Childhood (2009) and Home and Away (2012), a collection of New Zealand travel writing. His Globetrotter Guide to New Zealand is now in its seventh edition.
The first novel in his bestselling trilogy based on Captain Cook’s career, The Secret Life of James Cook, was published in 2013. The second novel, James Cook’s New World, was published in 2014 and the final novel, James Cook’s Lost World, in 2015. All three are published by HarperCollins under the Fourth Estate imprint.
An updated version of Graeme Lay’s entry in
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature is at:
www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/lay-graeme/.
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Also by Graeme Lay
Novels and Short Story Collections
The Mentor
The Fools on the Hill
Temptation Island
Dear Mr Cairney
Motu Tapu: Stories of the South Pacific
The Town on the Edge of the World
Alice & Luigi
Summer Love – Short Stories from 1960s New Zealand
The Secret Life of James Cook
James Cook’s New World
James Cook’s Lost World
Young Adult Novels
The Wave Rider
Leaving One Foot Island
Return to One Foot Island
The Pearl of One Foot Island
The Jacket
Children
Are We There Yet? A Kiwi Kid’s Holiday Exploring Guide
Nanny Potaka’s Birthday Treat
Non-fiction
The Cook Islands (with Ewan Smith)
Pacific New Zealand
In Search of Paradise: Artists and Writers in the Colonial South Pacific
Whangapoua: Harbour of the Shellfish
A Guide to James Cook’s New Zealand
Travel
Passages: Journeys in Polynesia
New Zealand: A Visual Celebration (with Gareth Eyres)
Samoa (with Evotia Tamua)
Feasts and Festivals (with Glenn Jowitt)
The Globetrotter Guide to New Zealand
The Best of Auckland
New Zealand: The Magnificent Journey (with Gareth Eyres)
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific
The Globetrotter Travel Atlas of New Zealand
Inside the Cannibal Pot
Copyright
Fourth Estate
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First published in Australia in 2017
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Copyright © Graeme Lay 2017
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