| Waikato writer and historian Deborah
Challinor's first book, Grey Ghosts (1998), was based on her Ph.D thesis on
New Zealand Vietnam veterans. Who'll Stop the Rain? followed in 2000, plus a
short regional history, Pictures from the Past: Waikato. Tamar, Deborah's
first novel, was also published in 2000, followed by the sequel White
Feathers (2003) and Blue Smoke (2004), all bestsellers. Her latest novel
Union Belle, based on the Waikato miners' strike in 1951, was at number one
for several months this year. Deborah has also lectured at Waikato
University (NZ Wars), and written for the Waikato Times as a columnist and a
feature writer. She has just completed a novel set in Paihia in 1840, is now
working on a fictionalised account of the 1947 Ballantyne's fire, and
preparing to write a history of Huntly.
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