Indexing
Lee has produced dozens of indexes for Bridget Williams Books, Awa Press, Otago University Press, Canterbury University Press and others. Highlights include The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher and Damon Salesa’s An Indigenous Ocean – the 2023 and 2024 Ockham New Zealand non-fiction books of the year. Here’s a short selection of Lee’s indexing projects.
The Welcome of Strangers
Landmark book on the history of New Zealand’s southern Māori by eminent Kāi Tahu archaeologist and historian Atholl Anderson. 2026 Ockham book of the year finalist.
Garrison World
Fascinating exploration of soldiers, sailors and their families stationed in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the British Empire in the nineteenth century. 2026 Ockham book of the year finalist.
Capital Trees
The significance and meaning of trees engagingly explored through the way they have shaped New Zealand’s capital – Pōneke / Wellington.
Remembering and Becoming – Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand
An insightful investigation into how personal narratives can deepen our understanding into the country’s history.
Shifting Grounds
This stunning multi-award-winning book unearths Auckland’s histories in three iconic landscapes: Pukekawa/Auckland Domain, Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill and Ihumātao.
The Meeting Place – Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642–1840
The story of encounters between Māori and Pākehā in a turbulent landscape still shaped by Māori authority and evolving relationships.
An Indigenous Ocean – Pacific Essays
Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. 2024 Ockham non-fiction book of the year.
The Fight for Freshwater
Water ecologist Mike Joy offers a rare first-hand look at the life of a scientist whose research led him to become an activist, and ‘critic and conscience’ of society.
Power to Win – the Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Lyndy McIntyre’s inspiring record of this successful movement is a celebration of hope and collective community power.
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi
Award-winner written by Ned Fletcher, and published by Bridget Williams Books – ‘The only thing dull about this book is the title.’
Katherine Mansfield’s Europe
Published by Otago University Press, and written by Redmer Yska – award-winning writer and historian.
Helen Kelly – Her Life
Published by Awa Press, this brilliant book by journalist Rebecca Macfie takes you into Kelly’s life and a defining period of NZ history.
Blood and Dirt
Jared Davidson’s engaging and beautifully illustrated book explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour.
Too Much Money
'Max Rashbrooke's insightful commentary on how wealth, poverty, and class affects Aotearoa New Zealand.’ Published by Bridget Williams Books.
Robert Lord Diaries
Revealing the dramatic contrast between life as a gay man in 1970s and 80s New York and provincial NZ – witty, wry, maudlin and insightful.