Full Bibliography
Sole Author
2022
Frankish: the Rise and Fall of a prominent Christchurch Physician: the Life of John David Frankish MD (1842-1917) (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2022), 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-65918-9
Nedwill: That ‘Peppery’ Irish Surgeon: New Zealand’s Outstanding Public Health Pioneer (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2022), 356 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-62932-8
From Sherry to Ginger Kisses and Zoom: The Centennial History of the Canterbury Historical Association since 1922 (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with the Canterbury Historical Association, 2022), 154 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-65433-7
When Doctors Differ: The 1895 Christchurch Hospital Inquiry and the 1896 Ousting of Dr John Murray-Aynsley (1860-1917 (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2022), 80 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-61856-8
2021
Doctors Divided: Medical Societies in Christchurch, 1865-97 (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2021), 174 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-60370-0
2020
A Scientific Welsh Eye-Surgeon: the short life of Llewellyn Powell, MD (1843-79), Christchurch’s First Medical Officer of Health (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press with The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2020), 144 pp ISBN 978-0-473-54361-7
Frank’s Flu: a novel about the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand [under the
pseudonym Jeff Wayne] (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press, 2020), 186 pp ISBN 978-0-473-45017-5
2017
Black Flu 1918: the story of New Zealand’s worst public health disaster (Christchurch,
Canterbury University Press, 2017), 96 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-95-1
2014
Victoria Square: Cradle of Christchurch (Canterbury University Press, 2014), 328 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-58-6
2013
Christchurch Crimes and Scandals, 1876-1899 (Canterbury University Press, 2013), 259 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-51-7
2012
Christchurch Crimes 1850-1875: Scandal and Skulduggery in Port and Town (Canterbury University Press, 2012), 232 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-39-5
2011
All Fall Down: Christchurch’s Lost Chimneys (Canterbury University Press, 2011), 120 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-10-4
2010
The Life of the Fourth Earl of Rochford (1717-1781): Eighteenth Century British Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 2 vols, 766 pp ISBN 978-0-77341-3009
2008
Christchurch Changing: an illustrated history, enlarged second edition (Canterbury University Press, 2008), 190 pp
Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna, second edition with new Preface (Canterbury University Press, 2008), 383 pp
2005
Rhodes on Cashmere: a History of the Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home, Christchurch, 1886-1996 (Christchurch: Hawthorne Press) 250 pp ISBN 0-473-10261-7
Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand. Revised, expanded and illustrated second edition (Canterbury University Press, 2005) 325 pp ISBN 1-877257-35-4
2004
Lyttelton, Port & Town: an illustrated history, 1850-2000 (Canterbury University Press, 2004) 164 pp ISBN 1-877257-24-9
2002
Christchurch in the Nineties: a chronology of events (Christchurch: Hawthorne Press, 2002) 314 pp ISBN 0-473-08238-1
The Annotated Biography of the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes (Christchurch: Hawthorne Press, 2001) 426 pp
2001
Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna: the illustrated biography (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2001) 383 pp ISBN 187-7-257-036
1999
Christchurch Changing: an illustrated history (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1999) 172 pp ISBN 090-881-2531
1994
Ambulances and First Aid: St John in Christchurch 1885-1987. A History of the St John Ambulance Association and Brigade in Christchurch, New Zealand (Christchurch: Order of St John) xii 366 pp ISBN 047-3-02517-5
1988
Black November: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand, with assistance from Linda Bryder (Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch) ix + 230 pp ISBN 0-8686-1-5951
1976
Black and White in South Africa, 1919-1961 (Wellington: Reed Education) 50 pp. [Form 5 textbook] vi+50 ISBN 0-589-04570-9
Editor/Co-Author
2018
Introduction & editor, That Terrible Time: Eye-witness Accounts of the 1918 Influenza
Pandemic in New Zealand (Christchurch, Hawthorne Press, 2018), 188pp ISBN 978-0-473-44749-6
Co-author with Colin Averill, The Life of Leslie Averill MD: First into Le Quesnoy: Battles, Babies and Boardrooms (Christchurch, Dorincourt Press, 2018), 317 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-54269-8
2017
Co-author with C. Moore and P. Dinsenbacher, The Spirit of St Andrew’s, 1917-2017 (Christchurch, Caxton Press, 2017), 363 pp [centennial school history]
2015
Cricketing Colonists: The Brittan Brothers in Early Canterbury, with assistance from Frances Ryman (Canterbury University Press, 2015), 325 pp ISBN 978-1-927145-68-5
2011
Member of Professorial Editorial Board for Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library, ed. C. Jones & B. Matthews (Canterbury University Press, 2011), 256 pp
1992
General editor, The Oxford History of New Zealand, revised and enlarged Second Edition (Auckland: Oxford University Press) xviii + 755 pp ISBN 019-55825-78
1988
Guest Editor, New Zealand Journal of History, April issue
1977
Muslims and Mongols: Essays on Medieval Asia by J.J. Saunders (Christchurch: Whitcoulls/University of Canterbury Publications, no.24.) 143 pp ISBN 0900-039-224-X