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Paul Little is the writer or ghost writer of more than 20 (auto) biographies including those of Aaron Cohen, Ray Avery, Sir Edmund Hillary and Willie Apiata.

Suet pastries and free-range hens: Paul Little on writing The Covid Chronicles

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Determined to write New Zealand’s first Covid book, Paul Little chronicled the lives of more than 20 New Zealanders under lockdown as rural domesticity took over his own.  It all started with a mysterious virus causing a global pandemic that threatened the lives of millions of people, my writer wife and I losing our long-standing … Read more

Books: The Monday Extract – When Mrs Ann Lawson of 36 Te Atatu Road Gave Birth to Quins

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In July 1965 Sam and Ann Lawson, who had been undergoing fertility treatment, gave birth to the world’s third surviving set of quintuplets at Aucklands’ National Women’s Hospital. The crowd went wild. Paul Little’s fascinating book Stolen Lives: The Untold Stories of the Lawson Quins picks up the story… Sam and Ann were in more … Read more