TWO LIVES’ WORKS

The works of Maurice Shadbolt, who died in 2004, aged 72, included the novels Among the Cinders (1965),

This Summer’s Dolphin (1969), An Ear of the Dragon (1971), Strangers and Journeys (1972), A Touch of Clay (1974), Danger Zone (1975), The Lovelock Version (1980), Season of the Jew (1987), Monday’s Warriors (1990), The House of Strife (1993) and Dove on the Waters (1997), as well as the play Once on Chunuk Bair (1982) and the memoirs One of Ben’s: A New Zealand Medley

(1993) and From the Edge of the Sky (1999). Non-fiction works included Gift of the Sea (with Brian Brake, 1963), Isles of the South Pacific (with Olaf Ruhen, 1971), Love and Legend (1976) and Voices of Gallipoli (1988).

Dunedin-based author Philip Temple is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books whose past work includes mountaineering memoirs, a biography of the Wakefield family entitled A Sort of Conscience, and the novel Beak of the Moon.