Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments

Announcing Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments and a new digital imprint from Bridget Williams Books .

Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments

With the support of the Callaghan family, we release 'Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments' on the first anniversary of his death, to celebrate the life of a remarkable New Zealander.

This release also marks the launch of BWB Texts: a new short-form digital imprint from Bridget Williams Books. As Catherine Callaghan has commented:

‘... as a person who embraced new technologies, [my father] would have enjoyed knowing that his work was being published digitally, reaching new audiences. He was a communicator to the end, and in this small way we are enabling him to keep talking to us.’

'Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments' brings together some of his most significant writing. Whether he describes his childhood in Wanganui, reflects on discovering the beauty of science, sets out New Zealand’s future potential or discusses the experience of fatherhood, Sir Paul Callaghan offers eloquent narratives that will endure in this country’s literature.

Meeting with the cancer that ended his life, he documents for us all ways of living well in the face of illness. As his daughter writes in her moving foreword: ‘He became his own scientific experiment.’

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