Indexing

Lee has produced dozens of indexes for Bridget Williams Books, Awa Press, Otago University Press, Canterbury University Press and others. Recent 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.

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 (Otago University Press).