Fraser Books was established in 1984 and is one of New Zealand's enduring independent publishers, specialising in New Zealand history and politics, biography and autobiography – with occasional fiction and children's books.
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About
Fraser Books is a small, independent New Zealand book publisher. Our primary focus is facilitating the publication of small-run books by authors who have produced manuscripts of real historical or literary value that are not considered commercially viable by larger publishers.
The latest books are Conquering Cascade, Chathams Resurgent, South of Martinborough, Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns, and Pressing On.
Recent publications have On the Move Again by Len and Neil Frances, Encounters...and collisions by Gordon McLauchlan, A Business Revolution by Hugh Rennie and The Little Doctor: The Autobiography of Dr Guy Scholefield.
Lasting Impressions
Lasting Impressions, by Ian F Grant is the first comprehensive history of New Zealand newspapers in 60 years – brimming with colourful extracts from newspapers and stories of remarkable personalities, it has nearly 250 photographs, many of which have never before been published. An essential reference for academics and librarians, and a highly readable social history.
Pressing On
Pressing On by Ian F. Grant is the second volume of the first comprehensive history of New Zealand newspapers in 60 years. It covers the period 1921-2000. In 1920, when Lasting Impressions ended, the large number of newspapers in the country were the profitable, well-respected vehicles of nearly all the news from around the world and around the corner welcomed into households in the largest cities and smallest hamlets. All that changed over the next 80 years. By 2000, the New Zealand newspaper market had changed forever – and in ways that put its very survival at risk. Pressing On is the story of how and why this happened.
