Athor of six non-fiction books: 

• Pocket Kiwi: So you think you know New Zealand?
• Sorted: A curious Kiwi book of lists
• The Daily Male: A Kiwi bloke’s book of days
• Instant Kiwi: New Zealand in a Nutshell (also translated into Chinese)
• Hey, You: A Kiwi Compendium of Baby Names
• Golden Arches Under Southern Skies: Celebrating 35 years of McDonald’s in New Zealand (commissioned)

Editor, writer, proofreader, tutor, medical receptionist and a volunteer.

• Cert TEFLA, Languages International, Auckland (1991)
• Dip TEFLA, British Council, Izmir, Turkey (1994)
• BA (Anthropology), University of Otago (1978)
• Publishing Procedures Course, Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1985)