Longacre Press was founded in 1995 in

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, by Barbara Larson, Paula Boock, and Lynsey Ferrari, three former workers at McIndoe Publishing,

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; ) is the second-most populous city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from ("fort of Edin"), the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of S ...

.Cawley, N.,
Publish and be praised
", ''

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'', 14 February 2004. Retrieved 5 July 2019. The company was originally located at Dowling Street, close to the city's Exchange Neighbourhood, but later moved to

Moray Place Moray Place is an octagonal street which surrounds the city centre of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. The street is intersected by Stuart Street (to the east and west), Princes Street (to the south) and George Street (to the north). Like many ...

in the city centre of Dunedin. Longacre specialized in non-fiction, including self-help, food, the outdoors, and natural history books. Additionally, it published junior and young-adult fiction, and work by writers such as Owen Marshall, Brian Turner, Lynley Hood, and Jack Lasenby for which it won multiple national book awards. In 2003, the company took on the catalogue of Shoal Bay Press of

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. At about the same time, the distribution of Longacre's books changed from Macmillan Books to

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. Longacre Press was acquired by Random House in 2009.

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*The New Zealand Writer's Handbook *Writers & Artists' Yearbook Book publishing companies of New Zealand Mass media in Dunedin New Zealand companies established in 1995 Mass media companies established in 1995 {{publisher-stub