Whanganui author Joan Rosier-Jones will launch her new guide book <i>Literary Whanganui</i> this month.
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When author Joan Rosier-Jones came to live in Whanganui in the early 2000s, she discovered a literary history that was a lot bigger than she imagined.
The writer is now sharing her discoveries in a new guide book Literary Whanganui to be launched in Whanganui this month.
Besides the obvious
writers such as James K Baxter, Robin Hyde and John A Lee, who all spent time beside the river, the book introduces Elizabeth Allen who wrote A Farm on the Wanganui River, Ted Lewis who wrote the memoir, I Was No Soldier, Emily Marshall-White who wrote My New Zealand Garden and many more.
"I set out to learn more about particular authors and was astonished and delighted at who else my research brought to light."
Rosier-Jones began guiding bus and boat tours that coincided with the Whanganui Literary Festival in 2006.
