'We love books. We can make them, and we can help you make them.'

Based in Highbury, Sarah Bennett is a publisher, production manager and writer. She has more than 15 years experience in the publishing trade, notably at Penguin Books & Lonely Planet in London, and home in Wellington with Bridget Williams, and Mary Varnham of Awa Press.

Lee Slater - editor, proof-reader and indexer - is a co-director of Sarah Bennett Books.

We may be able to help you with your book project, and welcome all enquiries.


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Scroggin gets forgotten ...

Lee and I are now working on a revision of our tramping guide, Don't Forget Your Scroggin. The new edition, with a new title, wil be released in the Spring by Craig Potton Publishing.

An update - on the Winter Solstice

Lonely Planet New Zealand edition 15 is on the press. I'm bracing myself for the to-do when those Wellingtonians find out what we named as the tackiest tourist attraction this time around...

On the road again...

Lonely Planet calls. Sarah and her able assistant are off to find the best of New Zealand (or at least Eastland, Hawke's Bay, the Wairarapa, Wellington and Nelson/Marlborough), for our favourite guidebook company. We look forward to unslightly weight gain and the opportunity to tell the real truth about Stonehenge.

Let's Go Camping - published in October

Our new guide to the best campsites in New Zealand - Let's Go Camping: 66 great places to pitch your tent or park your van (and what to do when you get there) ˆ will be available mid October. And it only took us 20,000 kilometres and six month's solid work... may it make you very happy.

The Best of Wellington - better than ever

The fourth (!) edition of the little yellow guidebook is now available. Buy it from your favourite bookstore or from other shops around town. 'A little packet of dynamite' (The Wellingtonian)

Read more from New Zealand's most exciting publisher

Awa Press - of course - named by the NZ Business Review as the country's most exciting publisher. But we already knew that...