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Graeme Lay


Born
Foxton, New Zealand
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Graeme Lay is a prolific writer, editor and manuscript assessor. He has published or anthologised forty works of fiction and non-fiction, including novels for adults and young adults, three collections of short stories and three of travel writing. He has been Books Editor for North & South magazine and for over twenty years was secretary of the Frank Sargeson Trust.

Graeme began writing short stories in the late 1970s. His first novel, The Mentor, was published in 1978 and his first collection of short stories, Dear Mr Cairney, in 1985. Since then he has won the Lilian Ida Smith Award (1988) and was named Reviewer of the Year at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (1998). Graeme is a three-time finalist in the New Zealand Travel Writer of th
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The Secret Life of James Co...

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James Cook's New World: Boo...

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Fletcher of the Bounty

3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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James Cook’s Lost World: Bo...

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James Cook's New World

3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014
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James Cook’s Lost World

3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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The Miss Tutti Frutti Conte...

3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Alice and Luigi

4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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100 NZ Short Short Stories

3.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Leaving One Foot Island

3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998
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