BOOKS UPCOMING
VOICE FROM THE SEA, VOYAGE AROUND MY UNCLE
Colin Carruthers, KC.
Some 40,000 Merchant Marine volunteers lost their lives in the two World Wars - 27-year-old Colin Watt from Otahuhu was one, torpedoed off Long Island, New York, by a German U-boat. His namesake and nephew, Colin Carruthers, tells his story through rescued letters and journals.
Publishing for ANZAC Day, 2025.
EACH A GLIMPSE - WELLINGTON RAILWAY STATION
Bruce Foster Photographer
In its 100 years of existence, this temple to transport has never had a publication dedicated to its singular glory - until now. Bruce Foster's contemporary images, with historic images from Westra, Daley, and more. Redmer Yska's historical introduction. Publishing mid-2025.
IN 2025 UGLY HILL PRESS WILL BE PUBLISHING MORE BOOKS WITH ATTITUDE... including KIM, by Kim Logan, Cromwell based vineyard manager, mountain climber, guide, and longtime international mountaineer, Ngati Kahungunu who climbed away from a difficult childhood and resolved the dichotomy between the worlds of Māori and Pakeha. TAILINGS, Meditations on Central Otago, photographs by Bruce Foster, text by Gregory O'Brien. A view of Central Otago unlike any other, beginning high on the southern bank of the Clutha River, where Austrian architect Ernst Plischke designed a modernist house for the Henderson family. A breathtaking book. THY SERVANT A DOG (working title) and continuing with the South Island and Rudyard Kipling theme (Kim was named after the protagonist in the Jungle Book). Mike White, renowned Aotearoa journalist based temporarily in Central Otago, is writing a book on one of Aotearoa's most trusted animals. Promises to be beloved.