Graeme Lay is a full-time writer whose books include Passages - Journeys in Polynesia, Pacific New Zealand and New Zealand - A Visual Celebration. He was the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Reviewer of the Year in 1998, and has twice been a finalist in the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award.

Auckland, Northland and the Coromandel; The Central North Island; The Lower North Island; The Upper South Island; Christchurch and the Canterbury Region; The Southern Alps and Lakes; The Wild West Coast; Dunedin and the Deep South