Annette Lees’ third book After Dark: Walking into the nights of Aotearoa combines memoir with stories of nature and social history. Taking readers from dusk to dawn – in the company of bats, lighthouse keepers and trampers – it inspires us to step out into the night. In After Dark, you mention being given a […]
About the author
Leigh Hopkinson
Wilderness deputy editor Leigh Hopkinson spends the weekends in the hills with her whānau and weekdays as a journalist and editor. She has a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. A keen tramper, rock climber and newbie mountaineer, she has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Tasman. She’s originally from the West Coast and now lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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