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Authors: Ted Dawe
I come from a large extended family and a good number of these were farmers.
While I grew up mostly in small towns from Ruatoria to Invercargill I did have a few key farm experiences, which, although short in duration have stayed with me ever since.
I remember those icy country mornings, the thin skinned houses and bulging wall paper, close encounters with animals, the smell of the cow shed and the thrill of driving huge machines.
I have been to a lot of places since then but these memories always float to the surface… demand my attention.
Ted Dawe’s first book
Thunder Road
won the Best First Book Award and the New Zealand Post Senior Fiction award in 2004. His second novel
K Road
was published to wide acclaim the following year.
Thunder Road
2003
K Road
2005
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior permission of Longacre Press and the author.
Ted Dawe asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
© Ted Dawe
ISBN: 1 877361 49 6
ISBN-13: 9781775530800
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand.
First published by Longacre Press, 2006
30 Moray Place, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Book and cover design by Christine Buess
Cover lettering by Katy Buess
Printed by Astra Print, New Zealand