Maurice Shadbolt House and Studio in Titirangi was earlier this year identified as a place of outstanding heritage significance for its long and close association with one of New Zealand’s best-known writers.

Today, the house and studio are managed by the Going West Trust, who are working to establish the heritage place as a writers’ residency.  

The buildings are a 1940’s California Bungalow and a purpose-built writer’s studio created by Shadbolt in 1972, and there is a garden with native vegetation and features built by him and his family.   

It was in his studio that Shadbolt wrote his New Zealand Wars trilogy Season of the Jew, Monday’s Warriors and The House of Strife as well as his play on New Zealand’s part in the Gallipoli campaign, Once on Chunuk Bair in 1982.  

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Image: Heritage New Zealand