Dunedin’s Netherworld Dancing Toys became the country’s top band with the release of Painted Years in 1985.
In recent months Dunedin’s Neville Peat has received major recognition for half a century of writing about the southern environment.
Having won Best in Show at last year’s Junipers Awards, Rakiura Distilling is going from strength to (Navy) strength.
Andrew Schmidt’s The Other Side of Reason is the long-awaited biography of musician Peter Jefferies.